"'Infect in Similitude' and Shakespeare's Hamlet"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo360/
Author:
	Weindling, Lauren.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 62, no. 2 (2022): 323–45.
DOI:
	10.1353/sel.2024.a927933
Annotation:
	"Examines the vocabulary of likeness and replication in Shakespeare’s disease-ridden Denmark, which aligns with early modern theories of contagion from Paracelsus and Girolamo Fracastoro." Considers "sympathetic contagion," incest, and disease in body natural and body politic in Hamlet. English summary, 323.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Paracelsus; Fracastoro, Girolamo
Tags:
	Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo360