Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage

abnormal according actually already Anatomy Anatomy of Melancholy appears audience Beaumont become Bedlam Bedlamites beginning behavior Bethlehem Hospital Bright Burton cause characters choleric closely comparatively concerned consequently considered contemporary course cure death Dekker depicting despite devil direct disease distraught Duchess duke early effective Elizabethan evident evil example fact Ferdinand final Fletcher Ford Ford's furthermore hand human humor imagination immediately influence inmates insanity interest interpretation Jacobean drama jealousy John Jonson King later least less logic London mad folk madmen major Massinger melancholy mental mind moral moreover motives natural never observes once particularly Passionate pathological patients perhaps period persons play playwright plot present Press primarily probably psychology psychopathic reason remain result satire scene seems sense Shakespeare spectacle stage studies suffers suggests symptoms theatrical theory tragedy treatment turn undoubtedly University victim Ward Webster York