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.

Autorentext

Kelsey Ridge is an Adjunct Professor at Alvernia University and has served as a dramaturg on opera and Shakespeare productions. She authored the book Shakespeare's Military Spouses and Twenty- First-Century Warfare (Routledge 2021) and has published on Shakespeare's works in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and the Indian Theatre Journal.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

"That I may give the local wound a name": An Introduction

"Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war": PTSD in 1 Henry IV

"Farewell the tranquil mind!": PTSD in Othello

"The torture of the mind": PTSD in Macbeth 102

"This Ended Action": PTSD In Much Ado About Nothing

"lion sick": The Absence of PTSD in Troilus and Cressida

"Now, Esperance!": A Conclusion