Madness in drama.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Duchess of Malfi : tyranny and spectacle in Jacobean drama / Karin S. Coddon -- "Transshaped" women : virginity and hysteria in The changeling / Arthur L. Little, Jr. -- The confined spectacle of madness in Beys's The illustrious madmen / Dominique Froidefond -- The male gaze in Woyzeck : re-presenting Marie and madness / Elizabeth Schafer -- Mental illness and the problem of female identity in Ibsen / A. Velissariou -- Representing mad contradictoriness in Dr. Charcot's hysteria shows / Dianne Hunter -- Blanche Dubois and Salomé as new women, old lunatics in modern drama / Kaarina Kailo -- Mad messiah : censorship and salvation in Bulgakov's Flight / Rob K. Baum -- Madness and magic in Eduardo De Filippo / Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte.
(Cont'd) A dramaturgy of madness : Suzuki and the Oresteia / John J. Flynn -- "Mad with love" : Medea in Euripides and Heiner Müller / Christian Rogowski -- Ionesco and textual madness / Elizabeth Klaver -- Black madness in August Wilson's Down the line cycle / Mark William Rocha -- Madness and political change in the plays of Caryl Churchill / Amelia Howe Kritzer -- Three recent versions of the Bacchae / Elizabeth Hale Winkler -- Madmen or specialists? : uses of insanity by Soyinka / Ipshita Chanda -- Fragmentation and psychosis : Fugard's My children! My Africa! / Marcia Blumberg -- Some African leaders on stage / Oluremi Omodele -- Madness as a satyrical tool in two Nigerian plays / Abiodun Goke-Pariola.
Drama
Mental illness in drama.