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

Introduction; Chapter 1 1With a few minor alterations, the portions of this chapter discussing King Lear first appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly 57.1 (Spring 2006): 1?22 as “Historica Passio: King Lear, Early Modern Medicine, and Editorial Practice.”; Chapter 2 1 An early version of some portions of this chapter appeared as “Shakespearean Revivifications: Early Modern Undead” in Shakespeare Studies XXXII (Fall 2004): 40?66; Chapter 3 “The Ink of Lovers”: Revenge Tragedy’s Blood Letters; Chapter 4 1An earlier, shorter version of some parts of this chapter appeared as “Performing Arts: Hysterical Disease, Exorcism, and Shakespeare’s Theater” in Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage, ed. Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson (Burlington, VT and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004) 3?30; epilo Epilogue Hermione’s Legacy, or Hysteria after 1700;