Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Kenneth S., 1965-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Mentally ill. Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) > In literature. Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) > History. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism. Mental illness in literature. Literature and mental illness > England > History > 16th century. Literature and mental illness > England > History > 17th century. English drama > 17th century > History and criticism. Psychiatric hospital patients in literature. Mentally ill in literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

A "pastime" that can "prompt us to have mercy" : putting Malvolio (Ben Jonson?) in a dark room
"'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" : poetaster, satiromastix--and Shakespeare's defense of the popular stage in Hamlet
"A very piteous sight" : the magnificent entertainment, The honest whore, part one, The honest whore, part two
Making Bethlem a "jest" and conceding to Jonson in Westward ho, eastward ho, and northward ho
"I know not/where I did lodge last night?" : Shakespeare's King Lear and the search for Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital
"Twin" shows of madness : John Webster's stage management of Bethlem in The duchess of Malfi
"Shadows and shows of charity" : The changeling, The pilgrim, and the Protestant critique of Catholic good works
"Foucault was right?".