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Stages of madness = sin, sickness and Seneca in Shakespearean drama /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stages of madness/ Andrew J. Power.
Reminder of title:	sin, sickness and Seneca in Shakespearean drama /
Author:	Power, Andrew J.,
Published:	Oxford :Peter Lang, : 2023.,
Description:	xiv, 162 p. :digital ; : 23 cm.;
Subject:	Mentally ill in literature. -
Online resource:	https://www.peterlang.com/search?searchstring=9781803740768
ISBN:	9781803740768

Stages of madness = sin, sickness and Seneca in Shakespearean drama /
Power, Andrew J.,1977-

Stages of madnesssin, sickness and Seneca in Shakespearean drama /[electronic resource] :Andrew J. Power. - Oxford :Peter Lang,2023. - xiv, 162 p. :digital ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In re-evaluating the contemporary staging of madness in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries this book provides a clearer understanding and interpretation of characters who suffer from mental and emotional extremities in Shakespearean drama. It addresses three factors that contribute to early modern concepts of madness. These are theories of the 'self' current and emergent in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries; contemporary medical writings on madness; and the legacy of portrayals of madness from classical Greek and Roman drama, with a particular focus on the Roman tragedian, Seneca. The more complete understanding that this combined approach provides facilitates a better-informed reading of Shakespeare's plays, plays that so often deal with mental and emotional extremities that were once thought of as 'madness'. Hamlet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, Edgar, Othello, even Antipholous and Malvolio, are all characters for whom this work provides a better understanding"--

ISBN: 9781803740768Subjects--Personal Names:

801322
Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616--Literary style.Subjects--Topical Terms:

570090
Mentally ill in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR2992.M3 / P69 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 822.33

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