Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

About this eBook

Author

Peers, E. Allison (Edgar Allison), 1891-1952

Title

Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

Credits

E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Drama -- Psychological aspects

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 63896

Release Date

November 27, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AND ITS MAD FOLK
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. Introductory.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of History.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of Literature.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy —(i.) The Maniacs.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. ( ii. ) Imbecility.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. ( iii. ) Melancholy.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy —( iv. ) Delusions, Hallucinations and other Abnormal States .
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. ( vi. ) The Pretenders.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. Conclusion.—Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. — General Ideas and Sentiments. — Dramatic use of Madness. — Mad Folk.
15. 15.BIBLIOGRAPHY. — 1. HISTORY AND CRITICISM. — 2. DRAMA.
16. 16.INDEX OF WORKS DEALT WITH OR QUOTED.
17. 17.Untitled

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