Shakespeare and the Words of Early Modern Physic: Between Academic and Popular Medicine. A Lexicographical Approach to the Plays
The article aims at showing how Shakespeare relied on the medical vocabulary shared by his coeval society, which had, for centuries, been witnessing the continuous process of vernacularization of ancient and medieval scientific texts. After outlining the state of early modern medicine, the author pr...
Main Author: | Roberta Mullini |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2013-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/6998 |
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