Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk
- Subtitle
- The Harness Prize Essay for 1913
E. Allison (Edgar Allison) Peers
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1. Front matter2. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AND ITS MAD FOLK3. PREFACE.4. CHAPTER I. Introductory.5. CHAPTER II. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of History.6. CHAPTER III. The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of Literature.7. CHAPTER IV. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy—(i.) The Maniacs.8. CHAPTER V. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. (ii.) Imbecility.9. CHAPTER VI. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. (iii.) Melancholy.10. CHAPTER VII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy—(iv.) Delusions, Hallucinations and other Abnormal States.11. CHAPTER VIII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. (vi.) The Pretenders.12. CHAPTER IX. Conclusion.—Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.13. BIBLIOGRAPHY.14. INDEX OF WORKS DEALT WITH OR QUOTED.