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Article: Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture.(Book review)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2006
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Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture, by Carol Thomas Neely. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 244. Cloth $52.50; paper $21.95.
A number of years ago, a play that earned the palm for having the longest title ever (shortened to Marat/Sade) dealt with, among other things, the relationship between mental asylum inmates and the theater. It expanded upon the notion that the confined mentally ill were always already "theater" by presenting them "acting" in a production scripted by the Marquis de Sade. This play was certainly not the first to present the madness or confinement of victims of mental ...