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Representing Idiocy and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern English Literature, 1500-1640

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Coordinator
THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX 

Organization address
address: SUSSEX HOUSE FALMER
city: BRIGHTON
postcode: BN1 9RH
website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Project website http://aliceequestri.wordpress.com
 Total cost 183˙454 €
 EC max contribution 183˙454 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-11-01   to  2019-10-31

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1    THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX UK (BRIGHTON) coordinator 183˙454.00

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 Project objective

My project will consider several examples of natural or artificial fools, clowns, idiots portrayed in the literary production of England from 1500 to 1640 and will investigate how early modern notions of intellectual deficiency primarily in medicine but also in society shaped the creation of those same figures. My literary corpus will include not only dramatic texts but also jestbooks, which notably offer a wealth of information on real or fantastic fools of the time, and poetical works. Folly in the sense of lack of wit, rather than the loss of it – which is the definition of madness – will be my primary focus. While the theme of madness in connection with early modern literature has been explored at length, the same cannot be said for cognitive disability or lack of intelligence. The main reason for this is that only recently have a small number of scholars started to discuss and bring together historical, medical and legal notions of natural folly in the early modern period. In the past, remarkable attempts at historicizing natural folly have bordered into discourses on madness and analogue mental disorders thus blurring the difference between the two conditions, the same difference that Renaissance legislation actually sought to define. In the wake of very recent trends in disability studies, therefore, I will use legal but especially medical theories of foolishness and idiocy to explore the characters of my corpus and to highlight, on a scientific and social basis, their separate nature from those conceived of as lunatics. Furthermore, because the exploration of intellectual disability in my period of interest is relatively a new field, I expect to find in the fools of my corpus hints to theories or assumptions that have not been discussed yet.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Alice Equestri
’This cold night will turn us all into fools and madmen’: Shakespeare’s Witty Fools and the Border between Idiocy and Mental Illness’
published pages: , ISSN: 0184-7678, DOI:
Cahiers Elisabethains 2020-04-08
2019 Alice Equestri
Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:
Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus, eds, Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways 2020-04-08
2018 Alice Equestri
Unnatural Naturals? Changelings and Issues of Intellectual Disability in Early Modern English drama’
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:
Theta XIII, Forms of the Supernatural on Stage: Evolution, Mutations 2020-04-08

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