The Melancholy Muse: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Early Medicine

by Carol F. Heffernan

Melancholy is so much part of human experience that it is no surprise that, in its clinical dimension, it has been written about by physicians for hundreds of years, from antiquity into the 20th century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820702625
• ISBN13: 9780820702629
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Duquesne University Press
• Length: 185 Pages