A rotten and dead body : disabled villainy on the early modern stage

Analysing the different ways in which the persistent trope of the disabled villain manifests on the early modern stage is, I believe, necessary work. There has been no extended scholarly account of this phenomenon; analyses of the fictional disabled villain have generally served as side arguments to larger discussions regarding the placement of disability in cultural consciousness.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Leverton, Tara Juliette Corinna

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Higginbotham, Derrick

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13118

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13118