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Medicine matters in five comedies of Shakespeare : from the Renaissance context to a reading of the plays / Luisa Camaiora & Andrea A. Conti.

Title
Medicine matters in five comedies of Shakespeare : from the Renaissance context to a reading of the plays / Luisa Camaiora & Andrea A. Conti.
Author
Conti Camaiora, Luisa
Publication
  • Bern : Peter Lang, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
Conti, Andrea A
Series Statement
Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste = Nature, science et les arts = Nature, science and the arts, 1663-6007 ; volume 16
Uniform Title
Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste Bd. 16.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Medicine
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. Selections
  • Medicine in literature
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-244).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • SOME FEATURES OF THE RENAISSANCE CONTEXT -- Humours and the body -- Pestilences and diseases -- Medical interventions and preparations -- Practitioners -- Institutions, medical progress and health care
  • A READING OF FIVE COMEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE -- Undifferentiated diagnoses in The comedy of errors : reliance on visual evidence -- Logorrhoeic symptoms in Love?s labour lost : indigestion of words -- The chameleon syndrome in The two gentlemen of Verona : Mutation in love -- Homeopathic necessity in The taming of the shrew : interactive therapy -- Tempers and distempers in The merry wives of Winsdor : variable humours
ISBN
  • 9783034321921
  • 9783035109443 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
956746364
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library