"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture

An examination of the cultural perceptions of madness in England, as represented in Shakespeare's tragedies, is given. The final difficulty of reading madness is that in doing so, one either dissociates from it or associates with it, thus becoming disqualified as an interpreter.

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British & Irish literature
Culture
Depressive disorders
Early Modern English
English literature
English speaking literatures
French speaking and English speaking literatures
Great Britain. Ireland
History and sciences of litterature
History of literature
Men
Mental disorders
Mental illness
Sadness
Shakespeare plays
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Suicide
Supernaturalism
Theater
Treatises
Witchcraft
Witches
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