Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

Author : Kaara L. Peterson

Hardback

Published : Wednesday 14 July 2010

ISBN : 9780754669937

Price : €175.50

Description

Explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. This title supports the discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases, among other hysterical maladies.

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