title: CATHARSIS THERAPY IN THE 17th CENTURY ENGLISH DRAMA: A CASE STUDY OF R. BROME’S COMEDY “THE ANTIPODES”
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Zonina, Nina V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-05-26T10:33:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-05-26T10:33:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2782-1943.2022.44
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41544
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper regards catharsis therapeutic application as a theme of the 17th
  century English drama: a case study of Brome’s play “The Antipodes” (1637–
  1638), never being in focus of Russian literary criticism. Catharsis is a central
  concept of drama especially in its scenic presentation. The resemblance of
  personal experiences to those in a play can provoke strong cathartic emotions,
  causing spectator’s purification and mental balance. The 20th century
  psychology used this effect as a “psychodrama” method for treating patients
  with mental disorders. Its essence is in transforming patients into actors of
  a dramatic piece reminding them their traumas, the emotions resulted proceed
  with cathartic cleansing of the painful symptoms. The paper discusses in
  detail the first use of the “psychodrama” method in the 17th-century English
  comedy “The Antipodes”. The play’s theme is the characters’ mental disorder
  featured with despondency and insanity healed by doctor Huball’s method
  of making the unsuspecting patients act in a performance (“inner play”) of
  an artificially created “antipodean” world of disorder similar to their overturned
  consciousness. The patients’ rejection of the “antipodean” world brings
  in strong cathartic emotions causing the characters’ mental health. The play’s
  analysis shows that the author exceeds the limits of the avant-garde catharsis
  therapy theme. The play passes his concern about the disease of the English
  society facing serious upheavals. It aims at bringing all his spectators in catharsis
  in order to heal the English world’s disease and let common sense triumph
  over the existing disorder and madness.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Synergy of Languages & Cultures 2022: Interdiscipilinary Studies;
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: catharsis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: psychodrama
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 17th century English drama
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: comedy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: antipodes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Richard Brome
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: inner play
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: CATHARSIS THERAPY IN THE 17th CENTURY ENGLISH DRAMA: A CASE STUDY OF R. BROME’S COMEDY “THE ANTIPODES”
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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