Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England / by Kaara Peterson.

  • Peterson, Kaara L.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

Physical description

viii, 4 unnumbered pages, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PUU.41.AA5
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780754669937
  • 0754669939
  • 9780754698234
  • 0754698238