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Equestri, Alice,
Literature and intellectual disability in early modern England : folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640 / Alice Equestri. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. - viii, 254 p. ; 23 cm. - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9781032054667 9780367655174
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Fools and jesters in literature.
People with mental disabilities in literature.
Law and literature.
Literature and medicine.
PR428.F665 / E68 2021
820.9003 / E648
Literature and intellectual disability in early modern England : folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640 / Alice Equestri. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. - viii, 254 p. ; 23 cm. - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9781032054667 9780367655174
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Fools and jesters in literature.
People with mental disabilities in literature.
Law and literature.
Literature and medicine.
PR428.F665 / E68 2021
820.9003 / E648