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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jackson, Kenneth S., 1965- Separate theaters. Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607591912 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenneth S Jackson |
ISBN: | 0874138906 9780874138900 |
OCLC Number: | 55981535 |
Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Loyola University of Chicago. |
Description: | 309 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | A pastime that can prompt us to have mercy : putting Malvolio (Ben Jonson?) in a dark room -- Though this be madness, yet there is method in't : poetaster, satiromastix, and Shakespeare's defense of the popular stage in Hamlet -- A very piteous sight : the magnificent entertainment, The honest whore, part one, The honest whore, part two -- Making Bethlem a jest and conceding to Jonson in westward ho, eastward ho, and northward ho -- I know not/ where I did lodge last night : Shakespeare's King Lear and the search for Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital -- Twin shows of madness : John Webster's stage management of Bethlem in The duchess of Malfi -- Shadows and shows of charity : the changeling, the pilgrim, and the Protestant critique of Catholic good works -- Foucault was right? |
Responsibility: | Ken Jackson. |
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Abstract:
This book seeks to update a standard reference - Robert Reed's Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage (1953) - by challenging its assumption that Bethlem was a house of horrors that showed its patients to visitors for entertainment, a practice supposedly then depicted on the stage to please "primitive" tastes.
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