Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance

Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015025010151
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Book Synopsis Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance by : F. David Hoeniger

Download or read book Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance written by F. David Hoeniger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance Related Books

Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: F. David Hoeniger
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 m
Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Dr Joan Fitzpatrick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of
Death and Drama in Renaissance England
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: William E. Engel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Table of contents
Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Michael C. Schoenfeldt
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Explores the close relationship between inner psychology and bodily processes as represented in English Renaissance poetry.
Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Lynette Hunter
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclus