Disabled Epistemologies: Failures of Knowledge and Care in Shakespeares's Merchant of Venice and Othello
The presence of disabled characters like blind Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and epileptic Othello are handy physical metaphors for the failures of epistemology that occur in both plays. Disability is often construed as a sort of saboteur of knowledge—disability of all kinds inhibiting the abili...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2021
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8969 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9978&context=etd |