Project Gutenberg 2020-11-27 Public domain in the USA. 174 Peers, E. Allison (Edgar Allison) 1891 1952 Peers, Allison Truscot, Bruce Peers, Edgar Allison 15015223 Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk The Harness Prize Essay for 1913 E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk" by E. Allison Peers is a scholarly examination of the representation of madness in early modern drama written in the early 20th century. The text explores how insanity is depicted within different plays, considering both historical perspectives on mental illness and literary portrayals of mad characters. Peers aims to elucidate the prevalence and significance of madness in the works of Elizabethan playwrights, revealing how these representations reflect societal attitudes towards mental health and disease. The opening of the work introduces the author's premises, emphasizing the historical and literary importance of studying madness within Elizabethan drama. Peers argues that understanding how madness was presented can provide insights into the progress of societal attitudes toward mental illness during that era. He notes that the paper will consider madness from both historical and literary perspectives, focusing on various types of mad characters found in tragedy and comedy. Additionally, the author clarifies his approach will be literary rather than medical, aiming to interpret the dramatist's perspective while acknowledging the complexities of mental illness's portrayal in their works. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 67.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism Literature and mental illness -- England -- History -- 16th century Mental illness in literature Mentally ill in literature Drama -- Psychological aspects PR Text Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) 448605 2025-06-25T08:55:23.316530 text/html 435112 2024-10-18T08:40:32 text/html 235675 2025-06-25T08:55:32.019481 application/epub+zip 238706 2025-06-25T08:55:25.194509 application/epub+zip 231070 2025-06-25T08:55:24.247538 application/epub+zip 365814 2025-06-25T08:55:36.542555 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 337420 2025-06-25T08:55:31.118491 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333975 2022-09-28T19:38:03.932688 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291409 2025-06-25T08:55:22.053544 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 271450 2024-10-18T08:40:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18222 2025-06-25T08:55:36.692463 application/rdf+xml 11319 2025-06-25T08:55:24.384497 image/jpeg 2119 2025-06-25T08:55:24.316520 image/jpeg 201489 2025-06-25T08:55:23.352630 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia