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Article: Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture.(Shakespeare and the Origins of English)(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. By Carlo Thomas Neely. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2004. xiii+ 244 pp. $21.95. ISBN 0-8014-8924-5.
Shakespeare and the Origins of English. By Neil Rhodes. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. viii+260 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924572-x.
Carol Thomas Neely's Distracted Subjects is an exemplarily professional new historical examination of the discourses of distraction--the meanings of madness--in English early modern culture, and, particularly, in the early modern and theatrical culture of London. She has two general aims: to repudiate the ...