Equestri, Alice. <br/><br/>
LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND  folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640.  [electronic resource] : 

 - [S.l.] :  ROUTLEDGE,  2021. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture .
<br/><br/>Introduction: Fools, from Popular Culture to Disability Studies -- Section 1. Law -- The Legal Discourse of 'Idiocy' on the Stage and Page -- 'A fool and his money are soon parted': the Fool and Property -- 'An you knew my properties somebody would ha' me': the Fool as a Ward -- Section 2. Medicine and Physiognomy -- Nature, Wits and Skulls: the Fool's Head -- Intellectual, Sensory and Physical Disability: the Fool's Body and Face -- Rationalising Fools' Disability: Causes and Risk Factors -- Epilogue: Intellectual Disability, Embodiment and Humour in Early Modern Literature. 
<br/><br/> "This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781000424973 1000424979 9781000424997 1000424995 9781003129868 1003129862 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700<br/>Fools and jesters in literature.<br/>People with mental disabilities in literature.<br/>Folly in literature.<br/>Law and literature.<br/>Literature and medicine.<br/>People with mental disabilities--History.--England<br/>Renaissance--England.<br/>DRAMA / General<br/>HISTORY / Renaissance
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9/003