Mary Lutze is an English Faculty member and the Writing Center Director at the University of North Texas. She is currently co-authoring a new monograph titled Advancing Accessibility with Deaf Theatre (forthcoming August 2027).

Mary Lutze employs a striking array of historical, biblical, socio-cultural, theological and literary texts to showcase the diversity of opinions about sensory disabilities in this period … and in our own current cultural moment. This book should be required reading.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Early Modern Disability Studies’ Relevance in Contemporary Culture 1. Defining the Early Modern Religious Model of Disabilities2. The Spectacle of False Impairment in Early Modern Drama3. Representations of Authentic Impairment On and Off the Early Modern Stage4. Sensory Impairment as Spiritual Gain in Early Modern Poetry and Prose5. Recovering Humanity: Instructing the Sensorily ImpairedConclusion: Reverberations of Religious Reform in Present DayWorks CitedIndex