Bedlam

Bedlam may refer to:

• Bethlem Royal Hospital, London hospital first to specialise in the mentally ill and origin of the word "bedlam" describing chaos or madness

Places

• Bedlam, North Yorkshire, a village in England
• Bedlam, Shropshire, a small hamlet near Bitterley in Shropshire, England
• Bedlam Theatre, a student run theatre in Edinburgh

Film and Television

• Bedlam (film), a 1946 film starring Boris Karloff
• Bedlam (2011 TV series), British supernatural television series
• Bedlam (2013 TV series), documentary series filmed at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Literature

• Bedlam: London and its mad, a book by Catharine Arnold on the history of mental illness in London
• "Tom o' Bedlam", an anonymous poem written circa 1600
• Bedlam (Kennen novel), a 2009 young adult novel by Ally Kennen
• Bedlam, a 1992 science fiction novel by John Brosnan
• Bedlam (Brookmyre novel), a 2013 novel by Christopher Brookmyre
• Tom o' Bedlam, the alias assumed by Edgar in the Shakespeare play King Lear
• Bedlam, a psychiatric hospital in the book Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
• The Bedlam, a mentally impaired character in the play The Roses of Eyam
• Bedlam (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Image Comics's Bedlam series

Music

• Bedlam, British 1970s rock band featuring Cozy Powell
• Bedlam, early 1990s rock band from Nashville, released on MCA Records, fronted by Jay Joyce
• Bedlam, an American rap group formed in 1999 by Prozak
• "Bedlam", a song by The Bel-Airs (an early 1960s Californian surf rock band)
• Bedlam (EP), by metal band Twilightning

Other

• Bedlam, a nickname for Institute F.C.'s YMCA Grounds (or Riverside Stadium) in Northern Ireland
• The Bedlam Series, the NCAA College Sports rivalry between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University
• Bedlam cube, a puzzle invented by Bruce Bedlam
• UFC 85: Bedlam, a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event
• Bedlam, a discontinued space invaders video game from GT Interactive Software