Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature, trauma studies, and disability studies to examine the presentation of PTSD in Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes as case studies 1 Henry IV , Othello , Macbeth , Much Ado About Nothing , and Troilus and Cressida . This character-based, interdisciplinary approach places Shakespeare’s texts and their production histories in conversation with current scientific research by ble