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Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies: Ill Communications Langley, Eric (Lecturer in Shakespeare, University College London)
Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies: Ill Communications
Langley, Eric (Lecturer in Shakespeare, University College London)
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 concerning contagion and disease.
336 pages, 1 halftone
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 25, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198821847 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 334 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 166 × 25 mm · 657 g |
| Language | English |