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TY  - THES
SP  - not paginated
ID  - bbbc38
T1  - "Stigma in Shakespeare"
AU  - Wilson, Jeffrey Robert
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - stigma
KW  - medicine
KW  - Caliban
LA  - English
AB  - Analyzes the aesthetics of stigma in Shakespeare's plays, focusing on the figural systems he inherits from earlier English drama and those he invents. Argues that in Richard II, 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V, Shakespeare "gestures toward the modern medical model of stigma as a sign of poor health in the past and a painful death in the future"; that in Troilus and Cressida he attempts "to out-maneuver the primitive origins of stigma in the Greco-Roman tradition"; and that in Tempest Caliban represents his skeptical response to stigma.
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