Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity

Richard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth—a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nation’s most important artist. In Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity , Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years, from Richard’s own manuscripts, early Tudor propaganda, and x-rays of sixteenth-century paintings through Shakespeare’s soliloquies, into Samuel Johnson’s editorial notes, the first play produced by an African American T