Madness At The Theatre

Author : Femi Oyebode
Publisher : RCPsych Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781908020420
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness at the Theatre written by Femi Oyebode and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness at the Theatre studies the theatrical representation of madness from the classical Greek period through to the 21st century. Professor Oyebode charts the portrayal of madness by the world's great playwrights across the centuries and argues that whereas acts of madness are described but unseen in Greek drama, Shakespeare brought these behaviours to centre stage. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries aberrant behaviour was portrayed in domestic settings by Ibsen - theatrical madness became a family drama. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill drew on their own families for their explorations of madness and addiction. Pinter's masterful use of the ambiguity of language finds strong echoes in the psychiatric clinic. Soyinka emphasised the social context - the personal malady as reflection of a greater malaise in society. Finally, Sarah Kane created plays that were the physical embodiment of her inner world. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the language of drama, the depiction of mental illness, and in the wider place of madness as a concept within society.

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226709655
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theaters of Madness written by Benjamin Reiss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.

Author : Jon Venn
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030797821
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness in Contemporary British Theatre written by Jon Venn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health, and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance. Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person is interpreted and encountered. As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30 years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the politics of madness and its relationship to performance.

Author : Derek Russell Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134789009
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes of Madness written by Derek Russell Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois, Dr Davis shows how madness in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in an individual's history and current relationships, and demonstrates that these stories can be a new and exciting source of insight into mental illness.

Author : Anna Harpin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351371045
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness, Art, and Society written by Anna Harpin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically with, rather than about, non-normative psychological experience. It is organised into two parts: ‘Structures: psychiatrists, institutions, treatments’, illuminates the environments, figures and primary models of psychiatric care, reconsidering their history and contemporary manifestations through case studies including David Edgar’s Mary Barnes and Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. ‘Experiences: realities, bodies, moods’, promblematises diagnostic categories and proposes more radically open models of thinking in relation to experiences of madness, touching upon works such as Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko and Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places, and Things. Reading its case studies as a counter-discourse to orthodox psychiatry, Madness, Art, and Society seeks a more nuanced understanding of the plurality of madness in society, and in so doing, offers an outstanding resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000461963
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage written by Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. Although there have been numerous volumes examining the medical and social dimensions of mental illness in the early modern period, and a few that have examined stage representations of such conditions, this volume is unique in its focus on the relationships between madness, kingship, and the anxiety of lost or fragile masculinity. The chapters uncover how, as the early modern understanding of mental illness refocused on human, rather than supernatural, causes, public stages became important arenas for playwrights, actors, and audiences to explore expressions of madness and to practice diagnoses. Throughout the volume, the authors engage with the field of disability studies to show how disability and mental health were portrayed on stage and what those representations reveal about the period and the people who lived in it. Altogether, the essays question what happens when theatrical expressions of madness are mapped onto the bodies of actors playing kings, and how the threat of diminished masculinity affects representations of power. This volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in the history of kingship, gender, and politics in early modern drama.

Author : A. Harpin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137337245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance, Madness and Psychiatry written by A. Harpin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.

Author : A. Harpin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137337257
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance, Madness and Psychiatry written by A. Harpin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781908745699
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moominsummer Madness written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomin,The Snorkmaiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited before the final curtain?

Author : Tony Fisher
Publisher : Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
ISBN 13 : 9781526135704
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault's Theatres written by Tony Fisher and published by Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought.