Author: Herman Pomeranz
Publisher:
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Category : Literature and medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: John Charles Bucknill
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Charles Woodward Stearns
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: F. David Hoeniger
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Unlike enthusiastic treatments by doctors of Shakespeare's knowledge of medicine, it is the work of a scholar specializing in Elizabethan drama who, guided by medical historians, has ventured into an interdisciplinary field. Several chapters describe the background of various theoretical and practical aspects of medicine with which Shakespeare's educated contemporaries were familiar. How did they think about the body with its physiological processes and their relation to mind and soul? How were health and various diseases understood? How were the sick treated, where, and by what kinds of people? What were the chief methods of treatment and what was the rationale for them? What kinds of literature provided ordinary literate Elizabethan men and women with useful medical information? How much controversy was there in medical thought and practice? Yet the book's central focus remains on Shakespeare.

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Category : Medicine in art
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Greg W. Bentley
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This book makes several important contributions to our knowledge of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. First, Bentley's close and thorough analysis of the references to syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens illustrates how Shakespeare not only transforms a medical topic into imaginative literature, but more specifically it demonstrates how Shakespeare employs this «image cluster» to define and reveal major themes in the plays - sexual commercialism, slander, and usury, respectively. Second, Bentley's investigation of the imagery and themes in these plays provides evidence about their generic identity: rather than view these plays as traditional comedies or even problem plays, they should be looked at as comic or tragic satires.

Author: Sujata Iyengar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472557506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Physicians, readers and scholars have long been fascinated by Shakespeare's medical language and the presence of healers, wise women and surgeons in his work. This dictionary includes entries about ailments, medical concepts, cures and, taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body, bodily functions, parts, and pathologies in Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Medical Language will provide a comprehensive guide for those needing to understand specific references in the plays, in particular, archaic diagnoses or therapies ('choleric', 'tub-fast') and words that have changed their meanings ('phlegmatic', 'urinal'); those who want to learn more about early modern medical concepts ('elements', 'humors'); and those who might have questions about the embodied experience of living in Shakespeare's England. Entries reveal what terms and concepts might mean in the context of Shakespeare's plays, and the significance that a particular disease, body part or function has in individual plays and the Shakespearean corpus at large.

Author: Gregory Wayne Bentley
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Category : Diseases and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1116

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Author: Benjamin Rush Field
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483854703
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Excerpt from Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare That the first edition of this little work has received. This edition appears in a thoroughly revised and much enlarged form to what extent, may be judged by the fact that chapters on The Physician, Surgery, Physiology, Anatomy and Phar macy have been added, together with many allusions to the other medical subjects, making an increase of over four hundred quotations. It has been impossible to resist the temptation of adding a few medical thoughts from other authors, which will be found under their appropriate heads. The labor necessary to accomplish this has not interfered in any way with profes sioual duties; it being a task entirely of the leisure hours of the night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.