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Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2004.
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| Colección: | Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: PERFORMANCE AND THE PRACTITIONER
- 1 Performing Arts: Hysterical Disease, Exorcism, and Shakespeare's Theater
- 2 "No Faith in Physic": Masquerades of Medicine Onstage and Off
- 3 "Note Her a Little Farther": Doctors and Healers in the Drama of Shakespeare
- PART II: RACE, NATIONHOOD, AND DISCOURSES OF MEDICINE
- 4 Hot Blood: Estranging Mediterranean Bodies in Early Modern Medical and Dramatic Texts
- 5 "Some love that drew him oft from home": Syphilis and International Commerce in The Comedy of Errors
- 6 Elizabethan Racial Medical Psychology, Popular Drama, and the Social Programming of the Late-Tudor Black: Sketching an Exploratory Postcolonial Hypothesis
- 7 Infectious Rape, Therapeutic Revenge: Bloodletting and the Health of Rome's Body
- PART III: COMPETING DISCOURSES
- 8 The Fille Vièrge as Pharmakon: The Therapeutic Value of Desdemona's Corpse
- 9 Transformation and Degeneration: The Paracelsan/Galenic Body in Othello
- 10 Cankers in Romeo and Juliet: Sixteenth-Century Medicine at a Figural/Literal Cusp
- Works Cited
- Index.