Kingship, madness, and masculinity on the early modern stage : mad world, mad kings /
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. Altogether, the essays question what happens when theatrical expressions of madness are mapped onto the bodies of actors playing kings, and how the threat of d...
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Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York :
Routledge,
2022
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 / 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 Kand 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 //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 / Staccy 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, Volponc, and the strategic performance of disability / R.W. Jones
- 12. Performing the "mad" prince: mental illness and princeliness in Hamlet / Rachel Stewart.
- Machine generated contents note: 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 / 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 Kand 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 //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 / Staccy 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, Volponc, and the strategic performance of disability / R.W. Jones
- 12. Performing the "mad" prince: mental illness and princeliness in Hamlet / Rachel Stewart.