Separate theaters
Subtitle: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage
By: Ken Jackson.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Mentally ill.; Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) -- In literature.; Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) -- History.; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Mental illness in literature.; Literature and mental illness -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and mental illness -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Psychiatric hospital patients in literature.; Mentally ill in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-302) and index.
Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Loyola University of Chicago.
Table of contents: title: A pastime that can prompt us to have mercy : putting Malvolio (Ben Jonson?) in a dark room; title: Though this be madness, yet there is method in't : poetaster, satiromastix, and Shakespeare's defense of the popular stage in Hamlet; title: A very piteous sight : the magnificent entertainment, The honest whore, part one, The honest whore, part two; title: Making Bethlem a jest and conceding to Jonson in westward ho, eastward ho, and northward ho; title: I know not/ where I did lodge last night : Shakespeare's King Lear and the search for Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital; title: Twin shows of madness : John Webster's stage management of Bethlem in The duchess of Malfi; title: Shadows and shows of charity : the changeling, the pilgrim, and the Protestant critique of Catholic good works; title: Foucault was right?.