Madness and drama in the age of Shakespeare

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Madness and drama in the age of Shakespeare

Duncan Salkeld

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

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Bibliography: p. 157-165

Includes index

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ISBN 9780719037870

Description

In Renaissance drama, madness links personal crisis to political crisis. Duncan Salkeld covers a range of psychiatric, political and dramatic literature from the renaissance to the presene day to examine the interplay between madness and drama in the plays of Shakespeare and other key dramatists, such as Jonson, Kyd, Dekker, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher. The cultural history of madness is a fascinating topic and Salkeld uses theorists such as Foucault, Derrida, Shoshana Felman and Luce Irigaray to explore the powerful dynamics of reason and madness, control and subversion. In reading madness as an index of contemporary power relations in Renaissance plays, Salkeld sheds light on the historical and ideological conditions which underlie our own rationality.

Table of Contents

  • "To define true madness" - reading, madness and truth
  • "When truth kills truth" - madness and literary theory
  • "Their pale and deadly looks" - madness and the body
  • "Dangerous conjectures" - madness in Shakespearean tragedy
  • "Still abusing women" - madness, confinement and gender in Renaissance drama
  • "The bond crack'd" - madness and ideology.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719045882

Description

In Renaissance drama, madness links personal crisis to political crisis. Duncan Salkeld covers a range of psychiatric, political and dramatic literature from the renaissance to the present day to examine the interplay between madness and drama in the plays of Shakespeare and other key dramatists, such as Jonson, Kyd, Dekker, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher. The cultural history of madness is a fascinating topic and Salkeld uses theorists such as Foucault, Derrida, Shoshana Felman and Luce Irigaray to explore the powerful dynamics of reason and madness, control and subversion. In reading madness as an index of contemporary power relations in Renaissance plays, Salkeld sheds light on the historical and ideological conditions which underlie our own rationality.

Table of Contents

  • "To define true madness" - reading, madness and truth
  • "When truth kills truth" - madness and literary theory
  • "Their pale and deadly looks" - madness and the body
  • "Dangerous conjectures" - madness in Shakespearean tragedy
  • "Still abusing women" - madness, confinement and gender in Renaissance drama
  • "The bond crack'd" - madness and ideology.

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