Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
, by Peterson,Kaara L.- ISBN: 9780754637912 | 0754637913
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/28/2004
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.