This volume addresses disability in theatre, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theatre. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother and Wit , as well as an original play by James McDonald.
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Thomas Fahy grew up in Los Angeles, California. He has studied literature and music throughout his life and received undergraduate degrees in both fields from the University of California at Davis. After earning a Ph.D. in literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he taught at several schools in California. He now lives in New York, where he is a professor of literature and Director of the American Studies Program at Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus. You can visit him at thomasfahy.com or on Facebook at http://bit.ly/ut3nl
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In 1967, the National Theater of the Deaf (NTD) began creating performance works that bridge the deaf and hearing worlds through their combination of American Sign Language (ASL) and speech. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other disabled actors, disability theater, victim art, swimming course, disabled body, disabled community, deaf culture, disability studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Tom, New York, Elephant Man, The Member of the Wedding, United States, Center Stage Players, Iron Horse, John Donne, John Henry, Lesser God, National Theater of the Deaf, African Americans, Last Supper, Rosemarie Garland, Thomas Fahy, David Hays, Francis Bacon, Jessie Cates, Los Angeles, Miss Carmichael, Oxford University Press, Cassie Williams, Frederick Treves, Happy Days, Human Wishes New!
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In 1967, the National Theater of the Deaf (NTD) began creating performance works that bridge the deaf and hearing worlds through their combination of American Sign Language (ASL) and speech. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other disabled actors, disability theater, victim art, swimming course, disabled body, disabled community, deaf culture, disability studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Tom, New York, Elephant Man, The Member of the Wedding, United States, Center Stage Players, Iron Horse, John Donne, John Henry, Lesser God, National Theater of the Deaf, African Americans, Last Supper, Rosemarie Garland, Thomas Fahy, David Hays, Francis Bacon, Jessie Cates, Los Angeles, Miss Carmichael, Oxford University Press, Cassie Williams, Frederick Treves, Happy Days, Human Wishes New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers on 7 pages
- Children of a Lesser God. by Mark Medoff on 4 pages
- The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault on page 33, page 34, and page 91
- Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson on page 60, page 67, and page 83
- Clinical Handbook of Depression by Janice Wood Wetzel on page 57, page 59, and page 67
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