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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 26
IS  - no. 3
T2  - ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews
SP  - 150-56
ID  - bbbc691
T1  - "Infectious Purgatives and Loss of Breath in Timon of Athens"
AU  - Stanev, Hristomir A
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - pestilence
KW  - purge
KW  - decay
LA  - English
AB  - Argues that, in Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton's Timon of Athens, Timon's pestilential language offers "a peculiar olfactory catalogue of purges" and a "state of metaphorical asphyxiation" that envision the breakdown of Athens as a deposit of volatile odors, thus conveying the inward rot of urban society.
ER  -