Madness in Shakespeare's Characters

Authors

  • Nuno Borja-Santos Serviço de Psiquiatria, Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca EPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25752/psi.6048

Keywords:

phenomenology, depression

Abstract

In the second part of this paper, the author initially stresses the literary context of "King Richard II", which allowed that we can it it like an historical drama rather than a tragedy; in the following section, the author analyses, from a phenomenological point of view, Richard II character and its parallelism with the opinion of authors, such as Minkowsky and Binswanger about time experience in depressive patients. In the conclusions, he stresses the genius of Shakespeare, in his search of human condition which allowed the revelationb of madness as belonging to it.

Published

2006-06-01

Issue

Section

Original Articles