Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage. Amy Kenny. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Med...
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage. Amy Kenny. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xii + 202 pp. €59.49
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While Sacks relies heavily on metaphor, Kenny includes an impressive collection of interdisciplinary documents—from the Wellcome Collection in London, for example, and her research at Huntington Library—to bolster her reparative reading of pregnancy as a “nebulous, secret experience” in early modern medicine and Shakespearean drama (91). In convers...
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Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage. Amy Kenny. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xii + 202 pp. €59.49
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1935-0236
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10.1017/rqx.2022.98
