Performance, madness and psychiatry : isolated acts / edited by Anna Harpin and Juliet Foster

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TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Description: xiv, 229 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781137337245 (cart.)

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Conté: Introduction: Locating madness and performance / Anna Harpin and Juliet Foster. Section I: Historical perspectives: 1. Smart's authority and the eighteenth-century mad-business / Richard Stern 2. Performance in Bethlem, Fulbourn and Brookwood Hospitals: a social psychological and social historical examination / Juliet Foster. Section II: Applying performance: 3. A Life of their own: reflections on autonomy and ethics in research-based theatre / Susan M. Cox 4. Whose mind is it anyway: acting and mental Illness / Sarah Rudolph Section III: Contemporary practices: 5. Start making sense / Dylan Tighe 6. 'No one ever listens': body, space, and history in RedCape Theatre's The Idiot Colony / Rebecca Loukes Section IV: Theatrical maladies: 7. Ophelia confined: madness and infantilisation in some versions of Hamlet / Bridget Escolme 8. Dislocated: metaphors of madness in British theatre / Anna Harpin -- Afterword: Relocating madness and performance

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792.06 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900071015

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