Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England
By: by Kaara Peterson.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669937; 9780754698234
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: historica passio: the fit of history; title: Early modern medicine and the case history of King Lear; title: "So troubled with the mother": dying to live; title: "The ink of lovers": revenge tragedy's blood letters; title: "Mocked with art" and playing dead: the theatrics of hysterica passio; title: Epilogue: Hermione's legacy, or hysteria after 1700.