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Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage
Title
Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage / edited by Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson.
ISBN
1315257661 (electronic bk.)
9781315257662 (electronic bk.)
0754637913
9780754637912
Published
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., ©2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages.)
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Summary
"This collection of essays makes a contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. Rather than treating medicine, the theater, and literary texts separately, the contributors show how the anxieties engendered by medical socio-scientific investigations were translated from the realm of medicine to the stage by Renaissance playwrights, especially Shakespeare. As a whole, the volume reconsiders typical ways of viewing medical theory and practice while individual essays focus on gender and ethnicity, theatrical impersonation, medical counterfeit and malfeasance, and medicine as it appears in the form of various political metaphors."--Jacket.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Original
Online version: Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., ©2004
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index.
Contents
Performing arts : hysterical disease, exorcism, and Shakespeare's theater / Kaara L. Peterson
No faith in physic : masquerades of medicine onstage and off / Tanya Pollard
Note her a little farther : doctors and healers in the drama of Shakespeare / Barbara Howard Traister
Hot blood : estranging Mediterranean bodies in early modern medical and dramatic texts / Carol Thomas Neely
Some love that drew him oft from home : syphilis and international commerce in the comedy of errors / Jonathan Gil Harris
Elizabethan racial medical psychology, popular drama, and the social programming of the late-Tudor Black : sketching an exploratory postcolonial hypothesis / Imtiaz Habib
Infectious rape, therapeutic revenge : bloodletting and the health of Rome's body / Catherine Belling
The fille vièrge as pharmakon : the therapeutic value of Desdemona's corpse / Louise Noble
Transformation and degeneration : the paracelsan/galenic body in Othello / Stephanie Moss
Cankers in Romeo and Juliet : sixteenth-century medicine at a figural/literal cusp / Lynette Hunter.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History of Medicine
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
Medicine in Literature
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