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Distracted subjects : madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture /
In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Distracted Subjects shows how...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Divisions in the discourses of distraction
- Initiating madness onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy
- Reading the language of distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear
- Diagnosing women's melancholy: case histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Destablizing lovesickness, gender, and sexuality: Twelfth Night and As You Like It
- Confining madmen and transgressing boundaries: The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night
- Rethinking confinement in Early Modern England: The place of bedlam in history and drama
- Epilogue: Then and now.