PART 1: The Performance of Disability in Everyday Life
Chapter 1. Disability and the Work of Performance in Early Modern England 32
Lindsey Row-Heyveld
Chapter 2. "By the Knife and Fire" Conceptions of Surgery and Disability in 53
Early Modern Medical Treatises
Jodie Austin
Chapter 3. "'Turn it to a Crutch': Disability and Swordsmanship in The Little 77
French Lawyer
Matthew Carter
Chapter 4. Mutism and Feminine Silence: Gender, Performance, and Disability 98
in Epicoene
Melissa Geil
Chapter 5. Contented Cuckolds: Infertility and Queer Reproductive Practice in 122
Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Macchiavelli's Mandragola
Simone Chess
Chapter 6. Reading Shakespeare After Neurodiversity 148
Wes Folkerth
PART II: Disability as a Metaphor in Dramatic Literature
Chapter 7. Enabling Rabies in King Lear 168
Avi Mendelson
Chapter 8. Limping and Lameness on the Early Modern Stage 192
Susan Anderson
Chapter 9. "Lame Humor" in Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage 217
Joyce Boro
Chapter 10. Syphilis Patches: Form and Disability History in The Knight of the 237
Burning Pestle
Nancy Simpson-Younger
PART III: The Work of Disabled Artists
Chapter 11. Sign Gain to Deaf Gain: Early Modern Manual Rhetoric and 256
Modern Shakespeare Performances
Jennifer Nelson
Chapter 12. "'This is miching mallecho. It means mischief': Problematizing 273
Representations of Actors with Down Syndrome in Growing Up Downs
Sarah Olive