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  1. Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England
    Author: Peterson, Kaara L.
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780754698234; 0754698238; 9780754669937; 0754669939
    Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medicine in Literature / England; History of Medicine / England; History, 16th Century / England; History, 17th Century / England; Hysteria / history / England; Patients / history / England; Social Conditions / history / England; Women / history / England; Frau; Geschichte; Medizin; English literature; Medicine in literature; Hysteria in literature; Women patients; Women patients; Literature and medicine; Literature and medicine; Medicine; Medicine
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 217 p.)
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    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