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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... caritas . For much of Medieval Ca- tholicism , caritas , love to God , was the principal commandment to all Christians ; Augustine had subsumed " Christianity as a whole under the aspect of love . " God reveals his love to man in the ...
... caritas . For much of Medieval Ca- tholicism , caritas , love to God , was the principal commandment to all Christians ; Augustine had subsumed " Christianity as a whole under the aspect of love . " God reveals his love to man in the ...
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... caritas was not only not sufficient to explain or justify charitable love , it was sinful in and of itself and very often the subject of ridicule . Luther observed that the " whole of Catholic doctrine of love [ caritas ] displays an ...
... caritas was not only not sufficient to explain or justify charitable love , it was sinful in and of itself and very often the subject of ridicule . Luther observed that the " whole of Catholic doctrine of love [ caritas ] displays an ...
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... caritas had , Protestants most often justified their interest in the demonstrably unfortunate by claiming or demonstrating what it was not : caritas.25 Richard Hooker , after an eight - hundred - word explication of the Catholic ...
... caritas had , Protestants most often justified their interest in the demonstrably unfortunate by claiming or demonstrating what it was not : caritas.25 Richard Hooker , after an eight - hundred - word explication of the Catholic ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Magnificent | 106 |
Making Bethlem a Jest and Conceding to Jonson | 132 |
Urheberrecht | |
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