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MEDICINE MATTERS IN FIVE COMEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE
FROM THE RENAISSANCE CONTEXT TO A READING OF THE PLAYS |
| By: |
Andrea A. Conti, Luisa Camaiora |
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Paperback |
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£56.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3034321929 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783034321921 |
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| Publisher: |
PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN |
| Pub. date: |
6 July, 2016 |
| Series: |
Natur, Wissenschaft und die Kuenste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, 16 |
| Pages: |
246 |
| Description: |
The first part of the book presents a general overview of some aspects of medicine and medical matters in the Renaissance. The second part proposes a close reading of five Shakespearean comedies, identifying for each one a specific medical theme and perspective that acts as unifying motif for the interpretation of the play. |
| Synopsis: |
The book examines the presence of medicine matters in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and documents how the theme of medicine can acquire particular importance for the interpretation of the plays: namely, it matters. Andrea A. Conti provides information on certain aspects of the medical context of the Renaissance, effecting the essential connections with previous and subsequent periods and furnishing the necessary background for the understanding of the state of the art of medicine at the time. Luisa Camaiora presents a close reading of the comedies, and identifies for each a specific and dominant medical facet, then proposed as a structural key for the analysis of the plays. The medical motifs enucleated determine the critical perspective for the discussion of the dramatic characters and events and for the interpretation of the overall meaning and significance of the single works. Features and references related to the sphere of medicine, identified in the comedies, are also commented upon and examined in the context of this medical reading of the plays. |
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Switzerland |
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
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