Add to ORKGMadness is an intricate and multifaceted topic. The purpose of this dissertation is to delve into the complexities of early modern insanity and examine its representation on the theatrical stage. It argues that, although madness can be harrowing and destructive, it can also provide a subversive form of power that grants individuals with the means to manipulate and gain autonomy over their surrounding environment. I will explore this idea through three separate categories; the madness of women, the madness of fools and the madness of kings
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
I would like to write about the perception of madness in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare’s ...
The history of madness is the dark passenger of humanity. It is the uncharted world of our times whi...
This thesis examines representations of madness on Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouse stages. It ex...
This dissertation is a study of madness in Stuart-era England. Madness was pervasive in early modern...
The characterization of women in the English theatre during the late seventeenth century shows femal...
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy...
This paper explores the depiction and function of madness on the Renaissance stage, specifically its...
This dissertation concerns woman's madness in dramas of three different cultures: Ancient Greece, El...
This major monograph deals with the annexation of the concept of madness by eighteenth-century write...
grantor: University of TorontoNineteenth-century drama has long been viewed as insignific...
Assuming an interdisciplinary approach that acknowledges the synergetic relationship between art his...
This dissertation is a study of madness in Stuart-era England. Madness was pervasive in early modern...
“Irregular” bodies—described as deformed, foul, ugly, maimed, crooked, limping, sick, and infected—a...
This thesis discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these p...
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
I would like to write about the perception of madness in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare’s ...
The history of madness is the dark passenger of humanity. It is the uncharted world of our times whi...
This thesis examines representations of madness on Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouse stages. It ex...
This dissertation is a study of madness in Stuart-era England. Madness was pervasive in early modern...
The characterization of women in the English theatre during the late seventeenth century shows femal...
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy...
This paper explores the depiction and function of madness on the Renaissance stage, specifically its...
This dissertation concerns woman's madness in dramas of three different cultures: Ancient Greece, El...
This major monograph deals with the annexation of the concept of madness by eighteenth-century write...
grantor: University of TorontoNineteenth-century drama has long been viewed as insignific...
Assuming an interdisciplinary approach that acknowledges the synergetic relationship between art his...
This dissertation is a study of madness in Stuart-era England. Madness was pervasive in early modern...
“Irregular” bodies—described as deformed, foul, ugly, maimed, crooked, limping, sick, and infected—a...
This thesis discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these p...
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
I would like to write about the perception of madness in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare’s ...
The history of madness is the dark passenger of humanity. It is the uncharted world of our times whi...