 | Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture Subjects: Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Characters -- Mentally ill; Shakespeare William 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Mental illness -- England -- History -- 16th century; Mental illness -- England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and mental il; In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century... Carol Thomas Neely is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana'Champaign. She is the author of Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays and coeditor of The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare . |
