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Shapeshifting Shakespearean Madnesses.

Mendelson, Avi.

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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shapeshifting Shakespearean Madnesses./
Author:	Mendelson, Avi.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	Theater history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22617972
ISBN:	9781687942968

Shapeshifting Shakespearean Madnesses.
Mendelson, Avi.

Shapeshifting Shakespearean Madnesses. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 275 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2019.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Shapeshifting Shakespearean Madnesses examines several ways Shakespeare depicts madness throughout his works but, rather than focusing on types of madness that are conditions of specific individuals, my project analyzes different ways madness travels across the airspace among bodies. I initially discuss the relationship, in a couple of early comedies, both between madness and confusion, and between madness and poetry. The second section analyzes how madness is depicted as a contagion in two tragedies-as rabies in King Lear and as epilepsy in Othello. Finally, I explore how Shakespeare imagines that madness can be provoked-through the eyes and ears-by listening to and watching a theatrical production; this chapter positions madness between rhetoric books that describe positively plays as joyously stirring passions and advantageously possessing auditors, and anti-theatrical tracts that warn of plays corrupting and infecting its patrons with mental disease.Blending the history of emotions, Disability Studies, and the burgeoning field of Mad Studies, this dissertation has an activist bent that seeks to include, in scholarly conversations, the mentally ill who may be most affected by histories of madness-giving them the tools to understand the history of oppressive language, and maybe even look at how the language has been subverted and circulated by this canonical author to describe good qualities. Likewise, the dissertation hopes to give Shakespeare scholars access to new ways of reading madness in the plays, both by eliciting the voices of a marginalized group who may have a different understanding of the plays' representations of mental health, and by escaping the diagnostic imperatives-the drive to figure out who is mad or not, and when-that often saturate much of the Shakespeare scholarship on madness.

ISBN: 9781687942968Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144911
Theater history.
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Disability studies

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