Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage

This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. It reconsiders typical ways of viewing medical theory and practice while individual essays focus on gender and ethnicity, theatrical impersonation, medical counterfeit and malfeasance, and medicine as it appears in the form of various political metaphors.

Catherine Belling is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society at Stony Brook University School of Medicine Imtiaz Habib is an Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at The George Washington University Lynette Hunter is Professor of the History of Rhetoric at the University of Leeds and Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance at University of California, Davis Stephanie Moss, teaches Renaissance Literature, Popular Culture, and Literature and the Occult at the University of South Florida Carol Thomas Neely is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Louise Noble is Lecturer in English, specializing in early modern English literature and culture at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia Kaara L. Peterson, is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio as of fall 2004 Tanya Pollard is an Assistant Professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey Barbara Howard Traister is a Professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania