Title |
Die Gestaltungen des Wahnsinns bei William Shakespeare
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Published in |
Acta Medica Austriaca, August 2006
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DOI | 10.1007/s00508-006-0641-y |
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Authors |
Thomas Stompe, Kristina Ritter, Alexander Friedmann |
Abstract |
Shakespeare is one of the great creators of human characters of the 16(th) century. Like for many of his contemporaries madness was a central topic of his work. The first part of this paper discusses the sociocultural environment and the semantic field of madness in the Elizabethan age, which forms the background for Shakespeare's characters. In the second part we try to analyze the clinical pictures of the fictive characters of Othello, Hamlet, Lear and Macbeth. While we find melancholy, delusions and hallucinations, other diseases such as schizophrenia are missing entirely. Schizophrenia only appears in the literature more than two hundred years later, in the beginning of modern age. |
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