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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55981535 Title: Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage Author: Kenneth S Jackson Publisher: Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0874138906 9780874138900 OCLC:55981535

  
  

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Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage

Author:	Kenneth S Jackson
Publisher:	Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"This book seeks to update the still standard reference on the topic of London's notorious psychiatric hospital, Bethlem, and the Shakespearean stage - 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. As the recent History of Bethlem has suggested, the hospital was first and foremost a charity, one that showed its patients to elicit alms for the mad poor." "This specifically "literary" historical study situates the rather sudden emergence of madhouses ("Bedlam") on the Shakespearean stage in the sophisticated literary dispute known as the "Poets' War," wherein various dramatists, particularly Jonson and Shakespeare, argued about what drama was supposed to be. "Madness" became a rhetorical battleground of artistic ideas, and that dispute, rather than any desire to represent the actual hospital, led to the appearance of "Bedlam" on the stage." "This book modifies the understanding of madness and representations of madness in the early modern period in light of more current understandings of the relationship between literature and history. Unlike much scholarship on literature, madness, and history, however, this study suggests, in its call for a more charitable understanding of Bethlem and the stage, that Michel Foucault's much maligned Madness and Civilization may actually have been right in his general suggestion that madness was more thoroughly integrated into the early modern period than it was in later centuries."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters. Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) -- In literature. Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) -- History. View all subjects
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