Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Farnham, England : Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2010]
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Series: | Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: historica passio: the fit of history
- Early modern medicine and the case history of King Lear
- "So troubled with the mother": dying to live
- "The ink of lovers": revenge tragedy's blood letters
- "Mocked with art" and playing dead: the theatrics of hysterica passio
- Epilogue: Hermione's legacy, or hysteria after 1700.