Distracted Subjects – Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture
Autor Carol Thomas Neelyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 apr 2004
The Spanish Tragedy first links madness to masculine tragic self-representation, and Hamlet invents a language to dramatize feminine somatic illness. Innovative women's melancholy is theorized in medical and witchcraft treatises and then elaborated in the extended portrait of the Jailer's Daughter's distraction in The Two Noble Kinsmen. Lovesickness, newly diagnosed in women, demands novel cures, and allows expressions of transgressive sexual desire in treatises and in plays such as As You Like It. The rituals of possession and exorcism, intensely debated off stage, are mocked and exploited on stage in reiterated comic scenes of confinement that madden men to enhance women's power. Neely's final chapter provides a startling challenge to the critically alluring analogy between Bedlam and the early modern stage by documenting that Bethlem hospital offered care, not spectacle, whereas stage Bedlamites served metatheatrical and prophylactic, not mimetic, ends. An epilogue places this particular historical moment within the longer history of madness and shows how our own attitudes toward distraction are haunted by those earlier debates and representations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780801489242
ISBN-10: 0801489245
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0801489245
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Locul publicării:United States
Descriere
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...