TY  - BOOK
AU  - Equestri,Alice
TI  - LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640
T2  - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
SN  - 9781000424973
U1  - 820.9/003 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - ROUTLEDGE
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fools and jesters in literature
KW  - People with mental disabilities in literature
KW  - Folly in literature
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - People with mental disabilities
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - DRAMA / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Renaissance
N1  - 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
N2  - "This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003129868
ER  -