Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English at the University of Georgia, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has written two scholarly monographs, Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (2005) and Shakespeare’s Medical Language (2011 and 2014).

• 1. Introduction: Shakespeare’s "Discourse of Disability" Sujata Iyengar PART I: Nation 2. Teeth Before Eyes: Impairment and Invisibility in Shakespeare’s Richard III Allison P. Hobgood 3. A "Grievous Burden": Richard III and the Legacy of Monstrous Birth Geoffrey A. Johns 4. Obsession/Rationality/Agency: Autistic Shakespeare Sonya Freeman Loftis and Lisa Ulevich 5. Seeing Feelingly: Sight and Service in King Lear Amrita Dhar 6. "Strange virtue": Staging Acts of Cure Katherine Schaap Williams 7. Shakespeare and Civic Health Matt Kozusko PART II: Sex 8. "The King’s Part": James I, The Lake-Ros Affair, and the Play of Purgation Hillary M. Nunn 9. "Gambol Faculties" and "Halting Bravery": Falstaff, Will Kemp, and Impaired Masculinity Catherine E. Doubler 10. Flower Imagery and Botanical Illustration: Health and Sexual Generation in Romeo and Juliet Darlena Ciraulo 11. Shakespeare’s Embodied Ontology of Gender, Air, and Health Sujata Iyengar PART III: Emotion 12. Speaking Medicine: A Paracelsian Parody of the Humors in The Taming of the Shrew Nathanial B. Smith 13. Catching the Plague: Love, Happiness, Health and Disease in Shakespeare Ian Frederick Moulton 14. Breastfeeding, Grief, and the Fluid Economy of Healthy Children in Shakespeare’s Plays Ariane M. Balizet 15. The Worm and the Flesh: Cankered Bodies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Alanna Skuse 16. Afterword: Ten Times Happier Katharine A. Craik

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