Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary

Description

A dictionary that includes ailments, general medical concepts and cures and therapies in Shakespeare, but also body parts, bodily functions, and entries on 'the pathological body' taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body.

Sujata Iyengar is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Georgia. She is author of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

It is one that any Shakespearian scholar or any student of early modern medical culture would be happy to have on the shelf. -- R. Marl Jackson, University of Alabama * The Sixteenth Century Journal * [A] very useful collection of medical-related terms in Shakespeare's oeuvre, from Abhorson to zany. -- Maria Vaccarella, King's College London * Memoria di Shakespeare *