Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History

by Jeffrey R. Wilson

Richard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth-a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nation's most important artist.

In Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity, Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years, from Richard's own manuscripts, early Tudor propaganda, and x-rays of sixteenth-century paintings through Shakespeare's soliloquies, into Samuel Johnson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439922667
• ISBN13: 9781439922668
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"