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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Peterson, Kaara L.
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.
Description:	viii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subject:	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. English literature -- Early modern. Hysteria in literature. Literature and medicine. Medicine. Medicine in literature. Women patients. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8106696

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ISBN:	9780754669937 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0754669939 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780754698234 (ebook : alk. paper) 0754698238 (ebook : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

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
Works cited
Index