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Counting the cost of compassion, this study of Shakespeare's plays and poetry analyses how medical explanations of disease impact upon philosophical conceptions and literary depictions of his characters and how compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are undermined by anxieties concerning contagion and disease.
Part I : Sympathy -- Introducing contagious sympathies -- Communicating sympathies -- Postscript -- Part II : Bittersweet -- Shakespeare's pharmacy -- Plagued by kindness -- Part III : Tenderness -- The sight of others' anguish -- Self-contentation -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.