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• Title:
  On “Savage and Deformed Slave”: Bodily Difference in Selected Contemporary Productions of The Tempest in Poland
• Creator:
  Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna
• Description:
  Dis/ability is a dynamic category produced in a complex constellation of factors that includes not only stigmatised mental and physical constraints or physiological differences, but also a manifestation of incapacity that is recognised or produced by law, social norms and the very way of thinking about the nature of bodily vulnerability. The meanings of dis/ability are thus culturally and historically dependent. Therefore, the manner in which dis/ability is presented on a theatrical stage can be considered not only as an important factor influencing the interpretation of a given production but also as a test for the dominant thinking of disability at a given point of time, in a given culture. The departure point for this paper is a brief discussion of the visibility of medieval models of dis/ability in Shakespeare’s plays and a reflection on how the reception of these dramatic texts has changed over time depending on the paradigmatic shifts in thinking about dis/ability, especially with the emergence of disability studies and the growing theoretical reflection on the position of dis/ability in theatre. An especially interesting case in point is the reception of Caliban as a character whose stigmatisation can be expressed through bodily difference. Thus, the paper focuses on what seems to be a systematic aberrant decoding of The Tempest in three twenty-first century Polish productions of the play.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2021 Romanica Silesiana;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
• Date:
  2021.12.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Romanica Silesiana; Vol 20 No 2 (2021): Reception; 1-12;
  Romanica Silesiana; Vol. 20 Núm. 2 (2021): Reception; 1-12;
  Romanica Silesiana; Vol. 20 No 2 (2021): Reception; 1-12;
  Romanica Silesiana; V. 20 N. 2 (2021): Reception; 1-12;
  Romanica Silesiana; Tom 20 Nr 2 (2021): Reception; 1-12;
  2353-9887;
  1898-2433
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/12955/10068
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/12955 ;
  10.31261/RS.2021.20.07
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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• Type:
  text