Performance, madness and psychiatry : isolated acts

著者

• Harpin, Anna
• Foster, Juliet

書誌事項

Performance, madness and psychiatry : isolated acts

edited by Anna Harpin and Juliet Foster

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.

目次

• Introduction: Locating Madness and Performance
• Anna Harpin and Juliet Foster PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Smart's Authority and the Eighteenth-Century Mad-Business
• Richard Stern 2. Performance in Bethlem, Fulbourn and Brookwood Hospitals: A Social Psychological and Social Historical Examination
• Juliet Foster PART II: APPLYING PERFORMANCE 3. A Life of Their Own: Reflections on Autonomy and Ethics in Research-Based Theatre
• Susan M. Cox 4. Whose Mind is it Anyway: Acting and Mental Illness
• Sarah Rudolph PART III: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES 5. Start Making Sense
• Dylan Tighe 6. 'No one ever listens': Body, Space, and History in RedCape Theatre's The Idiot Colony
• Rebecca Loukes PART IV: THEATRICAL MALADIES 7. Ophelia Confined: Madness and Infantilisation in Some Versions of Hamlet
• Bridget Escolme 8. Dislocated: Metaphors of Madness in Contemporary Theatre Anna Harpin Conclusion: Relocating Madness and Performance
• Anna Harpin and Juliet Foster Select Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB17615667
• ISBN:
  • 9781137337245
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Basingstoke
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 229 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 822.0093561
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English drama -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Mental illness in literature