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Looking back on his confinement to Bethlem, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: ""They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."" As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies as insane, what causes mental illness, and... read more
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To 'define true madness'-the speaker is Polonius, labouring, as ever, to be wittily wise-'what is't but to be nothing else but mad?'
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- Roy Porter (Author)
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