Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Fools, From Popular Culture to Disability Studies -- Section 1 Law -- 2 The Legal Discourse of 'Idiocy' on the...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Fools, From Popular Culture to Disability Studies -- Section 1 Law -- 2 The Legal Discourse of 'Idiocy' on the Stage and Page -- 3 'A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted': The Fool and Property -- 4 'An You Knew My Properties Somebody Would Ha' Me': The Fool as a Ward -- Section 2 Medicine and Physiognomy -- 5 Nature, Wits, and Skulls: The Fool's Head -- 6 Intellectual, Sensory, and Physical Disability: The Fool's Body and Face -- 7 Rationalising Fools' Disability: Causes and Risk Factors -- 8 Epilogue: Intellectual Disability, Embodiment, and Humour in Early Modern Literature -- Bibliography -- Index.
