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.
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Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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