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Intellectual disability in literature

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5 works

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    Idiots, madmen, and other prisoners in Dickens / Natalie McKnight.

    McKnight, Natalie. | Date: 1993
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    The mad folk of Shakespeare : psychological essays / by John Charles Bucknill.

    Bucknill, John Charles, 1817-1897. | Date: 1969
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    Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900 / edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton.

    | Date: 2018
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    Shakspeare's delineations of insanity, imbecility, and suicide / by A.O. Kellogg.

    Kellogg, A. O. (Abner Otis), 1818-1888. | Date: 1866
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    Madness and drama in the age of Shakespeare / Duncan Salkeld.

    Salkeld, Duncan, 1961- | Date: [1993], ©1993

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Mental Disorders
William Shakespeare

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