Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean StageUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 309 Seiten 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. Seeing the mad poor living in squalor moved people to give; that some spectators also laughed at this show may complicate, but does not contradict, Bethlem's charitable function. In contrast to our popular understanding of charity, which generally involves the efforts of the givers to at least mask any feelings of contempt for recipients, early modern charitable impulses coexisted easily with a clear disgust for and a- willingness to laugh at the recipients of charity. |
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... Malvolio . Mal- volio tries to correct the manners of Sir Toby , et al . , by employing a familiar trope : " My masters , are you mad ? Or what are you ? Have you no wit , manners , nor honesty but to gabble like tinkers at this time of ...
... Malvolio . Mal- volio tries to correct the manners of Sir Toby , et al . , by employing a familiar trope : " My masters , are you mad ? Or what are you ? Have you no wit , manners , nor honesty but to gabble like tinkers at this time of ...
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... Malvolio and Feste dis- guised as Sir Topas , one can sense a " new " source has entered Shakespeare's comedic treatment of madness , a source that takes him away from the trope of madness and mistaken identity still present in this ...
... Malvolio and Feste dis- guised as Sir Topas , one can sense a " new " source has entered Shakespeare's comedic treatment of madness , a source that takes him away from the trope of madness and mistaken identity still present in this ...
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... Malvolio's mad suffering threatens to overtake the comedic dramaturgy . Shakespeare becomes , it seems , much more tentative , cau- tious , and self - conscious with this " new " mad act even as he seems to distance himself from his ...
... Malvolio's mad suffering threatens to overtake the comedic dramaturgy . Shakespeare becomes , it seems , much more tentative , cau- tious , and self - conscious with this " new " mad act even as he seems to distance himself from his ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Magnificent | 106 |
Making Bethlem a Jest and Conceding to Jonson | 132 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage Kenneth S. Jackson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
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