Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage /
First Statement of Responsibility
Ken Jackson
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Newark :
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University of Delaware Press,
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c2005
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309 p. ;
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24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index
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A "pastime" that can "prompt us to have mercy" : putting Malvolio (Ben Jonson?) in a dark room -- "'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" : poetaster, satiromastix--and Shakespeare's defense of the popular stage in Hamlet -- "A very piteous sight" : the magnificent entertainment, The honest whore, part one, The honest whore, part two -- Making Bethlem a "jest" and conceding to Jonson in Westward ho, eastward ho, and northward ho -- "I know not/where I did lodge last night?" : Shakespeare's King Lear and the search for Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital -- "Twin" shows of madness : John Webster's stage management of Bethlem in The duchess of Malfi -- "Shadows and shows of charity" : The changeling, The pilgrim, and the Protestant critique of Catholic good works -- "Foucault was right?"