Madness in drama.
Series: Themes in drama ;; 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Drama -- History and criticism.; Mental illness in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Duchess of Malfi : tyranny and spectacle in Jacobean drama / Karin S. Coddon; title: "Transshaped" women : virginity and hysteria in The changeling / Arthur L. Little, Jr.; title: The confined spectacle of madness in Beys's The illustrious madmen / Dominique Froidefond; title: The male gaze in Woyzeck : re-presenting Marie and madness / Elizabeth Schafer; title: Mental illness and the problem of female identity in Ibsen / A. Velissariou; title: Representing mad contradictoriness in Dr. Charcot's hysteria shows / Dianne Hunter; title: Blanche Dubois and Salomé as New Women; title: old lunatics in modern drama / Kaarina Kailo; title: Mad messiah : censorship and salvation in Bulgakov's Flight / Rob K. Baum; title: Madness and magic in Eduardo De Filippo / Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte; title: A dramaturgy of madness : Suzuki and the Oresteia / John J. Flynn; title: "Mad with love" : Medea in Euripides and Heiner Müller / Christian Rogowski; title: Ionesco and textual madness / Elizabeth Klaver; title: Black madness in August Wilson's Down the line cycle / Mark William Rocha; title: Madness and political change in the plays of Caryl Churchill / Amelia Howe Kritzer; title: Three recent versions of the Bacchae / Elizabeth Hale Winkler; title: Madmen or specialists? : uses of insanity by Soyinka / Ipshita Chanda; title: Fragmentation and psychosis : Fugard's My children! My Africa! / Marcia Blumberg; title: Some African leaders on stage / Oluremi Omodele; title: Madness as a satyrical tool in two Nigerian plays / Abiodun Goke-Pariola.