Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy is Assistant Professor of Performance and Theatre History at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include the adaptation of early modern history plays for American political contexts. Her first book, Like a King: Casting Shakespeare's Histories for Citizens and Subjects, was published in 2020.
Inhaltsangabe
Section One: Distracted kingship 1. "Cold in great affairs": finding madness in the writer's method - decoding representations of the madness of Shakespeare's Henry VI 2. "Bad is the world": Richard III and social deformity 3. "Every madman dreameth waking:" Macbeth and The Winter's Tale 4. "Now quit you of great shames": Henry V and the mad French king Section Two: Fractured masculinity 5. "The strangest men that ever nature made!" Wildness, lovesickness, and sodomy in Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine the Great 6. Murderous distraction and the downfall of the tyrant in Thomas Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy 7. Sad stories of the death of kings: using despair to write history Section Three: Performed madness 8. Tom a Bedlam's masculine melancholy and King Lear's missing mad song 9. "My honor's at the stake": anger, illness, and royal identity in All's Well That Ends Well 10. "Let hell make Crook'd my mind": kingship and madness in Richard III 11. Feigning sick: King Lear, Volpone, and the strategic performance of disability 12. Performing the "mad" prince: mental illness and princeliness in Hamlet Conclusion: the future of mad kings
Section One: Distracted kingship 1. "Cold in great affairs": finding madness in the writer's method - decoding representations of the madness of Shakespeare's Henry VI 2. "Bad is the world": Richard III and social deformity 3. "Every madman dreameth waking:" Macbeth and The Winter's Tale 4. "Now quit you of great shames": Henry V and the mad French king Section Two: Fractured masculinity 5. "The strangest men that ever nature made!" Wildness, lovesickness, and sodomy in Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine the Great 6. Murderous distraction and the downfall of the tyrant in Thomas Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy 7. Sad stories of the death of kings: using despair to write history Section Three: Performed madness 8. Tom a Bedlam's masculine melancholy and King Lear's missing mad song 9. "My honor's at the stake": anger, illness, and royal identity in All's Well That Ends Well 10. "Let hell make Crook'd my mind": kingship and madness in Richard III 11. Feigning sick: King Lear, Volpone, and the strategic performance of disability 12. Performing the "mad" prince: mental illness and princeliness in Hamlet Conclusion: the future of mad kings
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