{"product_id":"9783032346780","title":"Staging Madness Shakespeare and His Contemporaries","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Shakespeare Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eStaging Madness\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eShakespeare and His Contemporaries\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMolly Ziegler\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Theater \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStaging Madness: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries explores how madness was depicted in performance on the early modern English playhouse stages. Moving from page to stage, the book offers a fresh perspective on studies of early modern plays and insanity by considering not only how mental illness is presented in the texts, but how it was realised in performance. What did madness look, sound and feel like? How did the playhouse stages shape these representations? And, how did engaging with and consuming these performances affect the audience?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThrough addressing these questions, this study pieces together the sensory language created by theatrical depictions of insanity. This language looks beyond the individual bodies of mad characters, instead examining how all aspects of the performance - the other actors, the audience, the playhouse - were implicated in building these portrayals. This holistic approach aims to re-assert the significance of performance in studies of early modern madness, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and offer a deeper consideration of how these representations held, isolated and transformed early modern anxieties over bodily and spiritual wellness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMolly Ziegler\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University, UK. Her research focuses on theatre and drama in early modern England, as well as how these practices contribute to popular understandings of madness and disease. She has published in journals such as the\u003cem\u003e Journal of Early Modern Studies, Early Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eScottish Journal of Performance, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eas well as with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThe Arden Shakespeare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. She has previously taught on the theatre studies and English literature teams at the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032346780\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51219952664716,"sku":"9783032346780","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032346780","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}