Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary

Hardback

Main Details

Title Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sujata Iyengar
SeriesContinuum Shakespeare Dictionaries
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:432
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780826491336
ClassificationsDewey:822.33
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication Date 7 April 2011
Publication Country United States

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.

Author Biography

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)

Reviews

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 *