Dramatic Prosthesis: Disability Studies and Drama

FAIN: FT-279021-21

Cameron Hunt McNabb
Southeastern University, Inc. (Lakeland, FL 33801-6034)

Research and writing for a book on the representation of disability in theatrical performances. 

This monograph theorizes frameworks for a dramatic disability studies, a much-needed intervention in the field of literary disability studies, and provides three case studies of its application. Challenging current text-based approaches, foremost "narrative prosthesis," the project interrogates how staged drama's reliance on embodiment--both of actors and audience members-- shifts representations and interpretations of disability. It offers analyses of Sophocles' Oedipus, Shakespeare's King Lear, and Nottage's Ruined as examples.