In this episode, our hosts Aubree Gray and Grayson Fulp ford the murky streams of The Changeling's B-plot, through a deep dive into the context of mental illness, madness, and asylums in the early modern period. Through historical research, their deployment of disability studies, and a very depressing game of true or false, they ask critical and insightful questions about how to responsibly work with this challenging subplot in production today.
A note on content: This episode includes in-depth discussion of mental illness, specifically madness, in the early modern period, including details on the mistreatment of the mentally ill, violence against women, and use of loaded language.
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