Performance, Madness and Psychiatry [electronic resource] : Isolated Acts /
Harpin, A.editor.
Foster, J.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Locating Madness and Performance; Section I: Historical Perspectives; 1 Smart's Authority and the Eighteenth-Century Mad-Business; 2 Performance in Bethlem, Fulbourn and Brookwood Hospitals: A Social Psychological and Social Historical Examination; Section II: Applying Performance; 3 A Life of their Own: Reflections on Autonomy and Ethics in Research-Based Theatre; 4 Whose Mind is it Anyway?: Acting and Mental Illness; Section III: Contemporary Practices; 5 Start Making Sense
6 'No one ever listens': Body, Space and History in RedCape Theatre's The Idiot ColonySection IV: Theatrical Maladies; 7 Ophelia Confined: Madness and Infantilisation in Some Versions of Hamlet; 8 Dislocated: Metaphors of Madness in British Theatre; Afterword: Relocating Madness; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Performing arts.
Theater-History.
Psychology, clinical.
Arts.
Theater.
Psychiatry.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Clinical Psychology.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Psychiatry.