Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England:
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Main Author: Peterson, Kaara L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey [u.a.] Ashgate 2010
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:VIII, 217 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9780754669937

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