Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean StageUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 309 עמודים 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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 85
עמוד
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
עמוד 8
... charity was written in and informed by my own experience in " mad " charitable places . So : I need to thank the knights of St. Larry's — Mick , Krug , Dupe , Stinger , Lynn , and Carolyn — for teaching me about Protestant charity in a ...
... charity was written in and informed by my own experience in " mad " charitable places . So : I need to thank the knights of St. Larry's — Mick , Krug , Dupe , Stinger , Lynn , and Carolyn — for teaching me about Protestant charity in a ...
עמוד 12
... charity . The hospital's en- during dependency on the good will of its benefactors had ren- dered public access to Bethlem not just economically expedient , but necessary , while charity had long required ocular proof of sickness and ...
... charity . The hospital's en- during dependency on the good will of its benefactors had ren- dered public access to Bethlem not just economically expedient , but necessary , while charity had long required ocular proof of sickness and ...
עמוד 13
... charity . How to take Bethlem's " charity " into account in understand- ing its show and the Shakespearean stage presents the critical challenge at hand . The History of Bethlem , I need to make clear at the outset , provides us with ...
... charity . How to take Bethlem's " charity " into account in understand- ing its show and the Shakespearean stage presents the critical challenge at hand . The History of Bethlem , I need to make clear at the outset , provides us with ...
עמוד 14
... charity , at Beth- lem and elsewhere in the culture . Correspondingly , it seems that the enjoyment some spectators took in viewing the mad could coexist with rather than negate their charity . This is in disturbing contrast to our ...
... charity , at Beth- lem and elsewhere in the culture . Correspondingly , it seems that the enjoyment some spectators took in viewing the mad could coexist with rather than negate their charity . This is in disturbing contrast to our ...
תוכן
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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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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alibius Alinda Antonio argues audience Bedlam Bednarz beggars Bellamont Ben Jonson Beth Bethlem Hospital Bosola Bridewell Candido caritas Catholic century Changeling character charitable show citizen figure confinement critical critique culture cure Deflores Dekker and Middleton Dekker and Webster Dionysian dramatic Duchess of Malfi early modern Eastward Ho Edgar elicit pity England entertainment Fletcher fool Foucault gallants gulling Hamlet Hieronimo Hippolito historians History of Bethlem Honest Whore hospital hovel humours Ibid institutions Jacobean Jonson Jonsonian King Lear literary London madhouse madmen Madness and Civilization Malvolio Medieval mocking ness Northward Ho patients perverse play play's playwrights Poetaster poetry Poets Polonius poor laws poor relief popular stage Prospero reason Reformation relationship Renaissance representational stage response Roy Porter Satiromastix scene seems sense Shakespeare show of Bethlem show of madness social suggested theater of Bethlem theatrical thlem Thomas Thorello tion tragedy tragic understanding visitation
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 24 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of Imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
עמוד 95 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
עמוד 173 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
עמוד 180 - Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like, a better way.
עמוד 58 - So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
עמוד 171 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these...
עמוד 189 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
עמוד 94 - Do you hear, let them be well used ; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live. Pol. My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
עמוד 168 - scape, I will preserve myself; and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast...
עמוד 25 - But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy ; But, howsoever, strange and admirable.