Not as far as I know, Chris, though the madness of Tom / madness and
civilisation thing would suggest it should.
The closest I can think of as a link with Foucault is via the New
Historicism, into which Foucault was an input, and which does sometimes
concern itself with Cant discourses, usually in the person of Thomas Harman.
Greenblatt in "Invisible Bullets" (I think) began this.
Robin.
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From: chris Jones
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Subject: Re: Samizdat Tom
I'd be curious to hear if this has crossed any Foucault scholarship.
Fascinating discussion (history begins with the 20th century for me...)
On 11/09/12 15:56, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Courtesy of Mr Hamilton again, and the British Museum, here is a
> transcription of the earliest surviving manuscript of Tom a Bedlam.
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> *A Tom a Bedlam Song *(1616) – *Giles Earle His Booke*
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> Transcript based on the text in *Loving Mad Tom, *checked
> against a facsimile
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> of the MS, with contractions expanded.
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