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Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage
- Title
- Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage / Ken Jackson.
- Author
- Jackson, Kenneth S., 1965-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2005.
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- Description
- 309 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Mental illness in literature
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Characters > Mentally ill
- Mentally ill in literature
- Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) In literature
- Psychiatric hospital patients in literature
- Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) History
- Literature and mental illness > England > History > 16th century
- English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
- Literature and mental illness > England > History > 17th century
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index.
- Contents
- A "pastime" that can "prompt us to have mercy" : putting Malvolio (Ben Jonson?) in a dark room -- "'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" : poetaster, satiromastix--and Shakespeare's defense of the popular stage in Hamlet -- "A very piteous sight" : the magnificent entertainment, The honest whore, part one, The honest whore, part two -- Making Bethlem a "jest" and conceding to Jonson in Westward ho, eastward ho, and northward ho -- "I know not/where I did lodge last night?" : Shakespeare's King Lear and the search for Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital -- "Twin" shows of madness : John Webster's stage management of Bethlem in The duchess of Malfi -- "Shadows and shows of charity" : The changeling, The pilgrim, and the Protestant critique of Catholic good works -- "Foucault was right?".
- Call Number
- MWEM (Shakespeare, W.) 05-3423
- ISBN
- 0874138906 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004016466
- OCLC
- 55981535
- Author
- Jackson, Kenneth S., 1965-
- Title
- Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage / Ken Jackson.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MWEM (Shakespeare, W.) 05-3423