LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND [electronic resource] : folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culturePublication details: [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2021.Description: 1 online resourceISBN: - 9781000424973
- 1000424979
- 9781000424997
- 1000424995
- 9781003129868
- 1003129862
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Fools and jesters in literature
- People with mental disabilities in literature
- Folly in literature
- Law and literature
- Literature and medicine
- People with mental disabilities -- England -- History
- Renaissance -- England
- DRAMA / General
- HISTORY / Renaissance
- 820.9/003
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National Library of India Online Resource | 820.9/003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | EBK000030351ENG |
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.
"This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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