Shakespeare's contagious sympathies ill communications /
Counting the cost of compassion, this study of Shakespeare's plays and poetry analyses how medical explanations of disease impact upon philosophical conceptions and literary depictions of his characters and how compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are undermined by anxieties con...
| Main Author: | Langley, Eric Francis, |
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| Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Oxford scholarship online.
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