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Disability in Shakespeare&#;s England
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In his plays, Richard III, in his Henry Plays, and even in Macbeth, Shakespeare writes about medical disabilities and physical deformities like a hunchback, madness, blindness, and being lame.
We can tell form these references that disability was present in Shakespeare&#;s lifetime but what exactly was the understanding of what a disability meant for a real person in Shakespeare’s lifetime? In order to understand the reaction of society, whether accommodations were made for disabilities, what those would have been, and how organizations like Bedlam Hospital for the insane fit into this understanding, we are sitting down today with Jeffrey R.
Wilson, author of Richard III&#;s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History 📚 to examine how understanding 16th century medical history helps characters like Richard III ma