Madness at the Theatre (Paperback)

Contents; Preface; 1. Greek tragedy and models of madness; 2. Greco-Roman comedy and folly; 3. Jealousy the green-eyed monster and madness in Shakespeare; 4. Ibsen and the domestication of madness; 5. Tennessee Williams and the theatre of the mind; 6. Soyinka's theatre of the shadowlands; 7. Sarah Kane: the self in fission.