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Author:

Pettigrew, Todd Howard James, 1970-

Title:

Shakespeare and the practice of physic : medical narratives on the early modern English stage / Todd H.J. Pettigrew.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

197 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Medicine.--Medicine.
Medicine--England--History--16th century.
Medicine--England--History--17th century.
Literature and medicine--England--History--16th century.
Literature and medicine--England--History--17th century.
Medicine in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.
Medicine in Literature--England.
Drama--England.
History, 16th Century--England.
History, 17th Century--England.
Physicians--England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-193) and index.

Contents:

Cymbeline's question : an introduction -- Art that God allows : empirics -- By reason of his place : physicians -- Unaccustomed drams and unconstant propositions : apothecaries and beneficed practitioners -- Not so base : surgeons -- Virtue and cunning : magical healers -- The great infamy of physic : a conclusion -- Afterword : bad medicine.

Summary:

"This book is the first broad study of the literary impact of the formation of the College of Physicians of London in the early sixteenth century; that momentous event redefined and renewed the long-standing conflict between university-trained physicians and the wide variety of other healers who had long competed for patients in England. Going beyond the usual questions posed about Shakespeare and medicine, this study explores Shakespeare's response to the early modern struggle for control of English medical practice"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780874139518 (alk. paper)
0874139511 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)67392674

LCCN:

2006012664

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)