Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage / Ken Jackson.

Insanity as redemption in contemporary American fiction : inmates running the asylum / Barbara Tepa Lupack.

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Psychiatric hospital patients in literature

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Separate theaters : Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean stage / Ken Jackson.

Insanity as redemption in contemporary American fiction : inmates running the asylum / Barbara Tepa Lupack.