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Jan 30, 2012 · Health and illness in Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s interest in all things medical is well known, and Sujata Iyengar’s recent book Shakespeare’s medical language – a dictionary, published by Continuum, is a successful addition to the literature on the subject, both a fascinating read and a valuable reference work.
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Childbirth - Health and illness in Shakespeare | The...
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Wordsworth, Shakespeare and nature in time of crisis. Posted...
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Jan 1, 2015 · Shakespeare addresses sickness and healing not only through the characters of his play, the sickness of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and the healing of Edward the Confessor but also through countries as a whole, the sickness of Scotland versus the healing power of England.
- Historic Overview
- Hysteria
- Conclusion
In the early Tudor era of England, the common belief was that there were five main types of mental health illnesses. First there was Melancholia, which referred to depression and apathy, and Mania which many associated with violent action. Second, were more ‘medical based’ mental abnormalities such as erratic behaviors caused by fevers: Delirium an...
When we examine the female experience of mental illness in Elizabethan Era, the most visibly apparent experience of ill-health is hysteria. Hysteria was understood as individuals having emotionally charged behavior that was excessive and out of control. Hysteria was undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women. Freud fermented this n...
When a woman had a mental health illness, it was not seen as someone suffering from a disease. Through the characters and artwork discussed we can see how problematic this representation was and the effects had it had throughout civil society. As characters such as Ophelia and Lady Macbeth illustrated, Hysteria was incredibly gendered and subsequen...
Some historians have suggested that this connection explains Shakespeare’s medical fluency; however, Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with medical references, like Macbeth and King Lear, before Hall’s relationship with the family.
Aug 23, 2016 · This Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episode is all about medicine in the era when Shakespeare was writing: who the practitioners were, the involvement of astrology, common medical practices, and balancing the humors.
Quick answer: This quote from Macbeth highlights the divine power believed to be granted to royalty to heal diseases like scrofula. The doctor explains that King Edward's...
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Aug 17, 2019 · The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare - January 2016
