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

Chapter 15: BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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The essay examines portrayals of mental disorder in early modern English drama, combining historical background with close literary analysis. It surveys medical and popular attitudes toward insanity, then classifies theatrical mad folk into types—mania, imbecility, melancholy, delusions and hallucinations, and deliberate pretenders—illustrating how tragedians and comedians shaped those figures. Adopting the dramatist's perspective rather than a clinical one, the author assesses accuracy, dramatic function, and artistic technique, and draws conclusions about changing theatrical conventions and wider social views of mental disturbance.

1. HISTORY AND CRITICISM.

  • The Cambridge History of English Literature.
  • English Dramatic Literature—A. W. Ward.
  • History of English Poetry—W. J. Courthope.
  • The Mad Folk of Shakespeare—Dr. Bucknill.
  • Notes on Shakespeare in various editions—notably the Variorum.
  • Shakespearean Tragedy—A. C. Bradley.
  • Shakespeare, his mind and art—Ed. Dowden.
  • Introductions to the various editions mentioned below under
  • “Drama.”
  • Notes and Lectures—S. T. Coleridge.
  • Francis Beaumont—G. C. Macaulay.
  • The Oxford Dictionary—passim.
  • Encyclopædia Britannica—s.v. Insanity.
  • History of the Insane in the British Isles—Tuke.
  • The Psychology of Insanity—B. Hart.
  • Survey of London—Stow, ed. Kingsford.
  • “Have with you to Saffron Walden”—Nash.
  • “The Belman of London”—Dekker.
  • “Anatomie of the Bodie of Man”—Vicary.
  • “Nymphidia”—Drayton.
  • “The Battle of Agincourt”—Drayton.

2. DRAMA.

The Works of:

  Shakespeare Globe Edn. (and others).
  Lyly edn. 1858.
  Marlowe Oxford Press.
  Beaumont & Fletcher ed. Dyce (11 vol.).
  Massinger ed. Gifford (4 vol.).
  Webster Mermaid Edn.
  Ford ed. Gifford (2 vol.).
  Middleton ed. Bullen (8 vol.).
  Dekker ed. Pearson (4 vol.).
  Jonson Mermaid Edn.
  Marston ed. Bullen.
  Shirley ed. Dyce; ed. Gifford.
  Brome edn. 1873.
  Day ed. Bullen.
Chettle:  Hoffman ed. 1852.

N.B.—References are to the editions named above. Specific notes are given where possible to all quotations directly bearing on the subject of the essay.