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A short history of lovesickness
| Aisha Mazhar
Are you ill or are you simply in love? It can be hard to tell. No wonder lovesickness was for centuries regarded as a bona fide disease.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
| Julia Nurse
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
| Nelly Ekström
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.