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Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk: The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

by E. Allison Peers

Level C1 · AdvancedHistorical12 chapters
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Explore the portrayal of madness in Elizabethan and early Stuart drama, revealing how playwrights reflected and shaped contemporary views on mental illness through vivid, artful characters that challenge the boundaries between sanity and eccentricity.

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12 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CHAPTER I. Introductory.
03CHAPTER II. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of History.
04CHAPTER III. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of Literature.
05CHAPTER IV. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy—(i.) The Maniacs.
06CHAPTER V. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. (ii.) Imbecility.
07CHAPTER VI. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. (iii.) Melancholy.
08CHAPTER VII.
09CHAPTER VIII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. (vi.) The Pretenders.
10CHAPTER IX. Conclusion.—Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.
11BIBLIOGRAPHY.
12INDEX OF WORKS DEALT WITH OR QUOTED.

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