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Lesel Dawson examines figures afflicted with erotic melancholy in early modern literature and provides a historical context for their malady. She discusses how
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In early modern Europe, love was not a feeling, but a physiological change in the body. In its extreme, love was lovesickness, a deadly disease. Love makes the
Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre
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Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama
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This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
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Authors: Alanna Skuse
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