Theaters Of Madness
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Theaters Of Madness
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Author : Benjamin Reiss
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Theaters Of Madness written by Benjamin Reiss and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Psychology categories.
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.
Scenes Of Madness
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Author : Derek Russell Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-21
Scenes Of Madness written by Derek Russell Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with Drama categories.
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.
Madness At The Theatre
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Author : Femi Oyebode
language : en
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Release Date : 2012-07
Madness At The Theatre written by Femi Oyebode and has been published by RCPsych Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Medical categories.
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.
Scenes Of Madness
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Author : Derek Russell Davis
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Scenes Of Madness written by Derek Russell Davis and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Medical categories.
Plays portraying madness put it into the context of the events and circumstances afflicting the person involved, and provide models of madness to interest all those who meet madness in their professional work or their daily lives. The late Derek Russell Davis believed that playgoers can learn as much about madness at the theatre as from textbooks of psychiatry and that the understanding plays give of madness is all the more vivid because the events are presented dramatically, evoking feelings as well as intellectual curiosity. In Scenes of Madness, Dr Davis discusses the account given by playwrights of the madness afflicting such diverse characters as Orestes, Oedipus, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Doctor Faustus, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving, Ivanov and Blanche Dubois. The madness depicted in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in the person's history and current relationships and recovery at this point of reconciliation. Dr Davis argues that those working in the field of mental health can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in the developments of mental illness and recovery from it, as well as about effects of intervention. Scenes of Madness demonstrates clearly the lessons to be learnt at the theatre, showing how plays can be a valuable new source of insight for professionals working with mental illness in a hospital or clinic setting.
Performance Madness And Psychiatry
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Author : A. Harpin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Performance Madness And Psychiatry written by A. Harpin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Madness In Contemporary British Theatre
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Author : Jon Venn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Madness In Contemporary British Theatre written by Jon Venn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
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. Dr. Jon Venn works as Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include contemporary British theatre, the politics of madness, and critical suicide studies. His work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies.
Separate Theaters
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Author : Kenneth S. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2005
Separate Theaters written by Kenneth S. Jackson and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with English drama categories.
"This specifically "literary" historical study situates the rather sudden emergence of madhouses ("Bedlam") on the Shakespearean stage in the sophisticated literary dispute known as the "Poets' War," wherein various dramatists, particularly Jonson and Shakespeare, argued about what drama was supposed to be. "Madness" became a rhetorical battleground of artistic ideas, and that dispute, rather than any desire to represent the actual hospital, led to the appearance of "Bedlam" on the stage."
20 Short Plays Madness And Mayhem For Community Theaters
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Author : Diane Walker
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-03-24
20 Short Plays Madness And Mayhem For Community Theaters written by Diane Walker and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Performing Arts categories.
Inspired by the proliferation of Ten Minute Play Festivals, playwright Diane Walker has crafted 20 short plays -- some dark, some murderous, and some purely goofy -- and all commentaries on life in the New Millennium.
Broken Beauty
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Author : Joseph N. Straus
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-01
Broken Beauty written by Joseph N. Straus and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Music categories.
Preeminent music theorist and leader in the study of music and disability Joseph Straus presents a truly groundbreaking take on musical modernism--demonstrating in an expansive and vivid multimedia presentation that modernist music is inextricably entwined with attitudes toward disability. In Broken Beauty, Straus argues that the most characteristic features of musical modernism--fractured forms, immobilized harmonies, conflicting textural layers, radical simplification of means in some cases, and radical complexity and hermeticism in others--can be understood as musical depictions of disability conditions, including deformity/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism. Against the traditional medical model of disability, which sees it as a bodily defect requiring diagnosis and normalization or cure, this new sociocultural model of disability sees it as cultural artifact, something that is created by and creates culture. Straus places this revised model of disability against a wide range of canonical, high-art concert music from the first decades of the century through the 1950s. Broken Beauty illustrates how disability is right at the core of musical modernism; it is one of the things that musical modernism is fundamentally about.
Edinburgh Companion To The Critical Medical Humanities
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Author : Whitehead Anne Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-14
Edinburgh Companion To The Critical Medical Humanities written by Whitehead Anne Whitehead and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciencesIn this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area.Key FeaturesOffers an introduction to the second wave of the field of the medical humanitiesPositions the humanities not as additive to medicine but as making a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might think about individual, subjective and embodied experienceExemplifies the commitment of the critical medical humanities to genuinely interdisciplinary thinking by stimulating multi-disciplinary dialogue around key areas of debate within the fieldPresents thirty-six original chapters from leading and emergent scholars in the field, who are defining its new critical edge