Madness : reading Hamlet in the time of Covid-19 and other plagues / by Emily Martin, with intrusions from the world around me, and William Shakespeare.
Edition:
[Basic edition.]
Publisher:
Emily Martin,
Copyright Date:
2020-2022
Description:
1 volume (22 unnnumbered leaves) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
"'This is the basic edition of Madness and was printed letterpress on an SP-15 Vandercook with polymer plates from Boxcar Press on Mohawk 80 lb. text paper. The drawings of the puppets were first done with trace mono-printing, and in this version of Madness, they are printed directly on to the text sheets. The background pattern is made up of my renderings of tears, drops of blood, Covid-19 particles and bullet holes. The non-adhesive covers are two colors of Tiziano paper. There may be has many as 13 copies of this book. Madness was funded in part by a grant from the College Book Art Association and I thank them. Errata: I deeply regret my misspelling of Ahmaud Arbery's name"--Colophon. Special Collections has copy number 5, signed by the book artist. IaU
Summary:
"'Madness' was created during the pandemic and went through many forms before it became what you see here. Its appearance and content are very much shaped by my time in isolation. Initially, I copied out the play Hamlet by hand starting in March 2020 because I was too anxious to sit and read. I also was making paper puppets for companionship. The project kept changing as events swirled around me. I struggled to make sense of the project in a world gone crazy. The text is a crazy quilt arrangement of lines from Hamlet and my writing on repeating themes of fear, disease, Black Lives Matter, Asian hate crimes, the insurrection, so much death and isolation"--Artist's website, viewed June 7, 2022.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1336498511
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.