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Author Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-

Title Distracted subjects : madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture / Carol Thomas Neely.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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 2nd FL Humanities Library Books  PR2992.M3 N44 2004    Available
Collation xiii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Mentally ill.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning -- Psychology.
Mental illness -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Mental illness -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Literature and mental illness -- England.
Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.
Mental illness in literature.
Mentally ill in literature.
Sex role in literature.
ISBN 0801442052 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0801489245 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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