Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage (eBook, ePUB)

Mad World, Mad Kings
Redaktion: Gutierrez-Dennehy, Christina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000461961
• Artikelnr.: 62471553

Autorenporträt

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