Distracted Subjects : : Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture / / Carol Thomas Neely.
In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Distracted Subjects shows how...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 map, 16 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INTRODUCTION: Divisions in the Discourses of Distraction
- CHAPTER 1. Initiating Madness Onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy
- CHAPTER 2. Reading the Language of Distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear
- CHAPTER 3. Diagnosing Women's Melancholy: Case Histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen
- CHAPTER 4· Destabilizing Lovesickness, Gender, and Sexuality:Twelfth Night and As You Like It
- CHAPTER 5. Confining Madmen and Transgressing Boundaries:The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night
- CHAPTER 6. Rethinking Confinement in Early Modern England: The Place of Bedlam in History and Drama
- EPILOGUE: Then and Now
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX