Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage

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University of Delaware Press, 2005 - 309 страници
This book seeks to update the still standard reference on the topic of London's notorious psychiatric hospital, Bethlem, and the Shakespearean stage - Robert Reed's Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage (1953) - by challenging its assumption that Bethlem was a house of horrors that showed its patients to visitors for entertainment, a practice supposedly then depicted on the stage to please primitive tastes. As the recent History of Bethlem has suggested, the hospital was first and foremost a charity, one that showed its patients to elicit alms for the mad poor. Seeing the mad poor living in squalor moved people to give; that some spectators also laughed at this show may complicate, but does not contradict, Bethlem's charitable function. In contrast to our popular understanding of charity, which generally involves the efforts of the givers to at least mask any feelings of contempt for recipients, early modern charitable impulses coexisted easily with a clear disgust for and a- willingness to laugh at the recipients of charity.

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Introduction
11
A pastime That Can prompt us to have mercy Putting Malvolio Ben Jonson? in a Dark Room
46
Though this be madness yet there is method int Poetaster Satiromastix and Shakespeares Defense of the Popular Stage in Hamlet
79
A very piteous sight The Magnificent Entertainment The Honest Whore Part One The Honest Whore Part Two
106
Making Bethlem a Jest and Conceding to Jonson in Westward Ho Eastward Ho and Northward Ho
132
I know not Where I did lodge last night? Shakespeares King Lear and the Search for Bethlem Bedlam Hospital
154
Twin shows of madness John Websters Stage Management of Bethlem in The Duchess of Malfi
183
Shadows and Shows of Charity The Changeling The Pilgrim and the Protestant Critique of Catholic Good Works
204
Foucault was right?
235
Notes
263
Bibliography
292
Index
303
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