Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies

Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies

Ill Communications

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2018
25 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
2.4
MB

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