Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama

Lindsey Row-Heyveld is Assistant Professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Dissembling Disability in Early Modern England.- 2. Act the Fool: Antonio's Revenge and the Conventions of the Counterfeit-Disability Tradition.- 3. Double Dissimulation: Counterfeit Disability in Bartholomew Fair.- 4. Feminized Disability and Disabled Femininity in Fair Em and The Pilgrim.- 5. Rules of Charity: Richard III and the Counterfeit-Disability Tradition.- 6. Mandated Masquerade: Disability, Metatheater, and Audience Complicity in The Fair Maid of the Exchange and What You Will.- 7. Conclusion: Early Modern Fantasies and Contemporary Realities.