Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England /
Peterson, Kaara L.
Farnham : Ashgate,
c2010.
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.
English literature
Medicine in literature.
Hysteria in literature.
Women patients
Women patients
Literature and medicine
Literature and medicine
Medicine
Medicine