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Richard III and disability: Excerpt - "Unfixable Forms" by Katherine Schaap Williams

What did Richard III and his disability represent to Shakespeare’s original audiences? And how has this Shakespeare villain shaped the field of early modern disability studies today?

Katherine Schaap Williams takes a closer look at these questions in the below excerpt from her recently published book, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater (Cornell University Press). Williams is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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[…] Richard III and disability: Excerpt – “Unfixable Forms” by Katherine Schaap Williams. What did Richard III and his disability represent to Shakespeare’s original audiences? And how has this Shakespeare villain shaped the field of early modern disability studies today? […]

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