Digging for perfection: discourse of deformity in Richard III’s excavation

Marcela Kostihova
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Marcela Kostihova: Hamline University, St Paul, USA

Palgrave Communications, 2016, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: Abstract Shakespeare’s Richard III, the archetypal world-infamous villain, has long served as an informative case study for the tendency of humanity to categorize the non-normative and surprising as repulsive. This article considers the ways in which the public spectacle of excavation of Richard III’s skeleton in Leicester harnessed Shakespeare’s cultural capital to address contemporary anxieties with non-normative bodies. This article is published as part of a collection to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/palcomms.2016.46

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