Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

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E. Allison Peers. Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Introductory

CHAPTER II. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of History

CHAPTER III. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of Literature

CHAPTER IV. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy—(i.) The Maniacs

CHAPTER V. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy (ii.) Imbecility

CHAPTER VI. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy (iii.) Melancholy

CHAPTER VII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy—(iv.) Delusions, Hallucinations and other Abnormal States

CHAPTER VIII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy (vi.) The Pretenders

CHAPTER IX. Conclusion.—Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

General Ideas and Sentiments

Dramatic use of Madness

Mad Folk

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. HISTORY AND CRITICISM

2. DRAMA

INDEX OF WORKS DEALT WITH OR QUOTED

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E. Allison Peers

The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

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“Mark, how he trembles in his ecstasy!”[20:1]

Pinch attempts to feel the “madman’s” pulse, but in any case he knows that both man and master are possessed:

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