Beyond the body
Subtitle: the boundaries of medicine and English renaissance drama
By: William Kerwin.
Series: Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Medicine in literature.; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Physicians in literature.; Renaissance -- England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narratives in medicine; title: Drug cultures : materia medica and new men; title: Medea's traces : women practitioners in history and drama; title: "Give me a look, give me a face" : surgeons, satirists and early modern inwardness; title: From mountebanks to virtuosi : professing physicians and medical anti-theatricality; title: Beyond body and soul : twelfth night and early modern medicine.