Distracted Subjects : Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Psychology.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Mentally ill.
Shakespeare, William > 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Et la psychologie.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Personnages > Malades mentaux.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Sex role in literature.
Mentally ill in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature > Great Britain.
Literature and mental illness > Great Britain > History.
Mental illness > Great Britain > History.
Wahnsinn > Motiv
Geschlechterrolle > Motiv
Englisch
Drama
Psychology.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Mental illness.
Literature and mental illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > History.
sex role.
plays (performing arts compositions)
Medecine dans la litterature.
Medecine > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Identite sexuelle.
Theâtre (Genre litteraire)
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de sante mentale dans la litterature.
Maladies mentales dans la litterature.
Psychanalyse et litterature > Angleterre.
Litterature et maladies mentales > Angleterre.
Maladies mentales > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Maladies mentales > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Medicine in Literature
History, 17th Century
History, 16th Century
Gender Identity
Attitude to Health
Mental Disorders > history
Medicine in literature.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Gender identity.
Drama.
Health attitudes.
Psychoanalysis and literature > England.
Literature and mental illness > England.
Mental illness > England > History > 17th century.
Mental illness > England > History > 16th century.
England.
United Kingdom
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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