| Plagued by kindness: contagious sympathy in Shakespearean drama. | |
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PMID: 21890861 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This article considers Shakespeare's metaphors of transmission, contagion and infection in the light of period plague tracts, medical treatises and plague time literature. The author demonstrates how period conceptions of disease are predicated upon a notion of sympathetic transference and, consequently, how kindness, likeness and communication between characters in Shakespearean drama are complicated and fraught with period specific anxiety. This article situates Shakespearean literary texts within a precise historical and medical moment, considering how scientific conceptions contaminate dramatic text. |
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Eric Langley |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-9-2 |
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Title: Medical humanities Volume: - ISSN: 1473-4265 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-9-5 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100959585 Medline TA: Med Humanit Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of English, UCL, London, UK. |
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