TY - JOUR
TI - Caligula: Mental illness or lucid madman? (Rostworowski and Camus
AU - Jakubczuk, Renata
TI - Caligula: Mental illness or lucid madman? (Rostworowski and Camus
AB - 
	This article – focused on two plays about the Roman Emperor Caligula – has a double objective: firstly, it puts aside two dramatic versions of history of Caligula, and, secondly, it asks a question whether it is more legitimate to consider Caligula as a madman or as a mental patient. After introducing the playwrights Karol Hubert Rostworowski and Albert Camus, as well as the basic terminological concepts concerning the notion of madness and mental illness, the article analyses the symptoms of the illness and the madness included in the studied texts.
VL - Volume 21 (2021)
IS - Volume 21, Issue 2
PY - 2021
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 145
EP - 156
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.21.015.14070
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/caligula-malade-mental-ou-fou-de-lucidite-rostworowski-et-camus
KW - Caligula
KW - Albert Camus
KW - Karol Hubert Rostworowski
KW - madness
KW - mental illness
KW - lucidity