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Author
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Date published
2005
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Publisher
Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2005.
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Subject
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism
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
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Mentally ill.
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Accession number
83430342
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Class
81/JAC
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ISBN
0874138906
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Language
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Physical description
309 p. ; 24 cm.
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General note: Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Loyola University of Chicago. Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-302) and index. Formatted contents note: 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?.