Shakespeare and Disability Studies. Sonya Freeman Loftis. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 144 pp. $65

Loftis argues that Stephen Wolfert's DE-CRUIT, a program serving war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, “encapsulates the social model” and is “focused on building and fostering disability community” (80), whereas Kelly Hunter's Hunter Heartbeat Method (HHM), aimed at autistic children and their caregivers, “bears the impulse of the cultural colonizer” (87). The film tracks the efforts by two young Shakespeare directors to recruit the senior residents of the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home in a community performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream (103). [...]to previous chapters’ use of multiple sources to shape nuanced readings, this chapter was limited by its tight focus on the film as its chief source of evidence.