Dissembling Disability: Performances of the Non-Standard Body in Early Modern England
The fear of able-bodied people pretending to be disabled was rampant in early modern England. Thieves were reputed to feign impairment in order to con charity out of well-meaning Christians. People told stories about these deceptive rogues in widely circulated prose pamphlets, sung about them in pop...
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University of Iowa
2011
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4906 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4863&context=etd |