Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England /
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Author / Creator: | Peterson, Kaara L. |
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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. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8106696 |
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