1860 BUCKNILL, Sir John Charles (1817 – 1897)
The medical knowledge of Shakespeare.
GMN 6615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7669
1863 CONOLLY, John (1794 – 1866)
A study of Hamlet.
The first psychiatric study of Hamlet. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6615.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7671
1865 CLESS, Georg (1815 – 1884)
Medicinische Blumenlese aus Shakespeare zu eigener und seiner Collegen Kurzweil gesammelt von Georg Cless.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13692
1867 BUCKNILL, Sir John Charles (1817 – 1897)
The mad folk of Shakespeare. 2nd ed.
First published as The psychology of Shakespeare, London, 1859.
GMN 5001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6552
1871 HARTING, James Edmund (1841 – 1928)
The ornithology of Shakespeare. Critically examined, explained, and illustrated.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15480
1896 MOYES, John (1848 – 1895)
Medicine and kindred arts in the plays of Shakespeare.
GMN 6618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7675
1910 WOOTTON, A. C. (1843 – 1910)
Chronicles of pharmacy. 2 vols.
From antiquity to time of writing, with chapters on pharmacy in mythology, in Shakespeare, in the Bible, and in popularmedicine.
GMN 2045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2231
1910 JONES, Alfred Ernest (1879 – 1958)
The Oedipus-complex as an explanation of Hamlet's mystery: A study in motive.
Jones developed this thesis based on Freud's comments on the play, as expressed to Wilhelm Fliess in 1897,[2] before Freud published the ideas in Chapter V of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Jones later developed…
GMN 9992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12181
1911 SHAW, George Bernard (1856 – 1950)
The doctor's dilemma, getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.
"Historian John Crellin opens his essay on William Osler and George Bernard Shaw with a quotation about this 1911 book that the compilers of the catalogue of Osler's library wrote: 'With a cynical 'Preface on Doctors'…
GMN 11661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13862
1917 GOGARTY, Oliver St. John (1878 – 1957)
Blight: The tragedy of Dublin: An exposition in 3 acts.
Gogarty, an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin was "o…
GMN 12539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14776
1918 BOUTAREL, M.
La médecine dans notre théâtre comique, depuis ses origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle...
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16124
1927 WILSON, Frederick Perera (1876 – 1926)
The plague in Shakespeare’s London.
GMN 5142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6156
1933 YEARSLEY, Percival Macleod (1867 – 1951)
Doctors in Elizabethan drama.
GMN 6622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7679
1951 LAWRENCE, Jerome (1915 – 2004); LEE, Robert Edwin (1918 – 1994)
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
GMN 10616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12809
1953 THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…
GMN 6623.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7687
1959 SIMPSON, Robert Ritchie
Shakespeare and medicine.
GMN 6623.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7688
1967 SILVETTE, Herbert (1906 – 2002)
The doctor on the stage: Medicine and medical men in seventeenth-century England.
GMN 9741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11929
1986 KAIL, Aubrey C.
The medical mind of Shakespeare.
GMN 6623.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7695
1992 HOENIGER, Frederick David Julius (1921 – 2016)
Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance.
GMN 8459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10636
2007 BAILIN, Miriam
The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.
GMN 10815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13011
2007 KATRIZKY, M. A.
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
GMN 13645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15926
