Performance, Madness and Psychiatry

1. Introduction: Locating Madness and Performance
Anna Harpin, Juliet Foster

Section I. Historical Perspectives

2. Smart’s Authority and the Eighteenth-Century Mad-Business
Richard Stern

3. Performance in Bethlem, Fulbourn and Brookwood Hospitals: A Social Psychological and Social Historical Examination
Juliet Foster

Section II. Applying Performance

4. A Life of their Own: Reflections on Autonomy and Ethics in Research-Based Theatre
Susan M. Cox

5. Whose Mind is it Anyway?: Acting and Mental Illness
Sarah Rudolph

Section III. Contemporary Practices

6. Start Making Sense
Dylan Tighe

7. ‘No one ever listens’: Body, Space and History in RedCape Theatre’s The Idiot Colony
Rebecca Loukes

Section IV. Theatrical Maladies

8. Ophelia Confined: Madness and Infantilisation in Some Versions of Hamlet

Bridget Escolme

9. Dislocated: Metaphors of Madness in British Theatre
Anna Harpin

10. Afterword: Relocating Madness
Anna Harpin, Juliet Foster

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Clinical Psychology, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Psychiatry