Comments on: ‘Round the Bend’, Meaning & Context https://nosweatshakespeare.com <strong><a href="/">Modern Shakespeare</a></strong> resources, <strong><a href="/sonnets/">sonnet translations</a></strong> & lots more! Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: philip harris https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/round-the-bend/comment-page-1/#comment-2996308 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:11:23 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=1031997#comment-2996308 Going round the bend originates in Victorian England and is derived from the ‘lunatic asylums’ /mental hospitals of the time which were secluded, private and enclosed. Any discussion of mental disability was a taboo and in order to conceal the main building most hospitals did not have a straight entrance but often a meandering driveway with bends to hide the main building from outsiders view….hence ‘going round the bend’ for those with a mental health illness or disability.

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