"Stigma in Shakespeare"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc38/
Author:
	Wilson, Jeffrey Robert.
Type:
	Dissertation
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	California--Irvine, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	stigma; medicine; Caliban
Tags:
	1 & 2 Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida
WSB Update:
	Winter 2012
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc38