Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 94 IS - no. 7 T2 - English Studies SP - 773-87 ID - bbbc863 T1 - "Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans" AU - Wilson, Richard PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - madness KW - monarch LA - English AB - Noting that Michel Foucault's "reputation within Shakespeare studies appears to have sunk without trace," argues that his interpretation of Shakespeare's representation of madness in Madness and Civilization offers "a critique that identifies the dark affinity between the sovereign and the beast in Shakespeare's Ubu-esque king: a monster who reveals not madness 'outside', but 'within the hollow crown.'" English summary, 773. Reprinted in Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson, eds., Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2014), 195-209 (q.v.) and Sophie Chiari, ed., The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern England (Burlington: Ashgate, 2015), 17-29 (q.v.). ER -