Madness in Contemporary British Theatre: Resistances and Representations

By Jon Venn

Acknowledgements

Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Madness in Sarah Daniels' Head-Rot Holiday

2.3 Diagnosis through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange

2.4 The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect

2.5 Conclusion

3. Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space, and Mad Experience

3.1 Introduction &nb

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030797813
• ISBN13: 9783030797812
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"