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This thesis examines two such plays, the anonymous tragedy A Larum for London and Thomas Dekker's city comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday, both produced in the final year of the 16th century, in which visions of a unified London are in fact produced by way of the disabled body. Both plays posit a fantasy of the body politic, moreover, aligned specifically with the embodiment of the disabled veteran. The fantasy of the healthy, unified social body in A Larum for London, I argue, is predicated on cultural logics of unity, derived in large part from medical and philosophical as well as political discourses of the period, that emphasize the necessity of preserving bodily integrity. These discourses inform the metaphorical leap from the disabled body of a single character, Stump, to the unification of the urban body politic against external threats. In creating its vision of a harmonious and unified London, The Shoemaker's Holiday, I argue, relies on contemporary chorographical representations of a walkable urban space that in turn create a coherent social hierarchy. Alongside the entwined ideologies of production and reproduction, the logic of a walkable London works to exclude the disabled veteran Ralph as a valid subject of the urban social order. The thesis turns to disability studies, queer theory, performance studies, and cultural studies paradigms in order to elucidate the ways in which particular forms of disability and disability representation exist as a set of historically-contingent phenomena, as well as an enduring and mutable category of embodiment.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Lame-Footed London: Disability, Drama, and Ideologies of the City in Fin De Siècle England"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Mazzio, Carla","English"],"dc:creator":["Nowicki, Shaun; 0000-0003-4248-6726"],"dc:date":["2025-02-21T21:44:37Z","2020"],"dc:description":["M.A.","The final years of the 16th century were marked by deep uncertainty about the political and social stability of England. Queen Elizabeth I was in her twilight years and concerns over her ailing body and its implications for a healthy body politic were reflected in a broad range of texts that dealt explicitly with relationships between social unity and disabled bodies. This thesis examines two such plays, the anonymous tragedy A Larum for London and Thomas Dekker's city comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday, both produced in the final year of the 16th century, in which visions of a unified London are in fact produced by way of the disabled body. Both plays posit a fantasy of the body politic, moreover, aligned specifically with the embodiment of the disabled veteran. The fantasy of the healthy, unified social body in A Larum for London, I argue, is predicated on cultural logics of unity, derived in large part from medical and philosophical as well as political discourses of the period, that emphasize the necessity of preserving bodily integrity. These discourses inform the metaphorical leap from the disabled body of a single character, Stump, to the unification of the urban body politic against external threats. In creating its vision of a harmonious and unified London, The Shoemaker's Holiday, I argue, relies on contemporary chorographical representations of a walkable urban space that in turn create a coherent social hierarchy. Alongside the entwined ideologies of production and reproduction, the logic of a walkable London works to exclude the disabled veteran Ralph as a valid subject of the urban social order. The thesis turns to disability studies, queer theory, performance studies, and cultural studies paradigms in order to elucidate the ways in which particular forms of disability and disability representation exist as a set of historically-contingent phenomena, as well as an enduring and mutable category of embodiment.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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