The melancholy muse
Subtitle: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and early medicine
By: Carol Falvo Heffernan.
Series: Duquesne studies.; v. 19
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; English literature -- History and criticism; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- To 1500; Depression, Mental, in literature; Literature -- Psychological aspects; Lovesickness in literature; Physicians in literature; Melancholy in literature; Sadness in literature; Medicine, Medieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and index.