Medicine Matters in Five Comedies of Shakespeare

The book examines the presence of medicine matters in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors , Love’s Labour’s Lost , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , The Taming of the Shrew , and The Merry Wives of Windsor , and documents how the theme of medicine can acquire particular importance for the interpretation of the plays: namely, it matters. Andrea A. Conti provides information on certain aspects of the medical context of the Renaissance, effecting the essential connections with previous and subsequent pe