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List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Bibliographical Note	xv
INTRODUCTION: Divisions in the Discourses of Distraction	1	(26)
CHAPTER 1. Initiating Madness Onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy	27	(19)
CHAPTER 2. Reading the Language of Distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear	46	(23)
CHAPTER 3. Diagnosing Women's Melancholy: Case Histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen	69	(30)
CHAPTER 4. Destabilizing Lovesickness, Gender, and Sexuality: Twelfth Night and As You Like It	99	(37)
CHAPTER 5. Confining Madmen and Transgressing Boundaries: The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night	136	(31)
CHAPTER 6. Rethinking Confinement in Early Modern England: The Place of Bedlam in History and Drama	167	(46)
EPILOGUE: Then and Now	213	(6)
Works Cited	219	(18)
Index	237