Kingship, madness, and masculinity on the early modern stage : mad world, mad kings /: mad world, mad kings. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy.
• Editors: Gutierrez-Dennehy, Christina
• Contents: Introduction: madness, kingship, and early modern masculinity Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy Section 1: Distracted kingship 1. "Cold in great affairs:" finding madness in the writer’s method: decoding representations of the madness of Shakespeare’s Henry VI Alison Basil 2. "Bad is the world": Richard III and social deformity Liberty S. Stanavage 3. "Every madman dreameth waking": Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale Carole Levin 4. "Now quit you of great shames": Henry V and the mad French king Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy 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 Sarah Crockarell 6. Murderous distraction and the downfall of the tyrant in Thomas Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy William David Green 7. Sad stories of the death of kings: using despair to write history Jeffrey S. Squires Section Three: Performed madness 8. Tom a Bedlam’s masculine melancholy and King Lear’s missing mad song Stacey Jocoy 9. "My honor's at the stake": anger, illness, and royal identity in All's Well that Ends Well Deb Streusand 10. "Let hell make Crook’d my mind": kingship and madness in Richard III Benjamin Curns 11. Feigning sick: King Lear, Volpone, and the strategic performance of disability R.W. Jones 12. Performing the "mad" prince: mental illness and princeliness in Hamlet Rachel Stewart Conclusion: the future of mad kings Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 822.309; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Kings and rulers in literature; Mentally ill in literature; Mental illness in literature; Masculinity in literature; Power (Philosophy) in literature; Sovereignty in literature; Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century; Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000461961; 9781000461930; 9781003165439
• Related ISBNs: 9780367760830; 9780367760847
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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