Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England /

Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Kaara L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Hysteria in literature.
Women patients > England > History > 16th century.
Women patients > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and medicine > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and medicine > England > History > 17th century.
Medicine > England > History > 16th century.
Medicine > England > History > 17th century.
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.