Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England / by Kaara Peterson.

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

viii, 4 unnumbered pages, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: historica passio: the fit of history -- Early modern medicine and the case history of King Lear -- "So troubled with the mother": dying to live -- "The ink of lovers": revenge tragedy's blood letters -- "Mocked with art" and playing dead: the theatrics of hysterica passio -- Epilogue: Hermione's legacy, or hysteria after 1700.