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Mental Disorders - in literature

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    The mad folk of Shakespeare : psychological essays / [Sir John Charles Bucknill].

    | John Charles Bucknill | Date: 1867
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    Art et folie / [directeur de la publication : J. Pigeaud].

    | Date: 1985
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    Madness in Shakespearian tragedy / by H. Somerville ; with a preface by Wyndham Lewis.

    | Henry Somerville | Date: 1929, [1969]
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    Madness and enthusiasm in Burton's Anatomy of melancholy and Swift's Tale of a tub / Thomas Lester Canavan.

    | Canavan, Thomas Lester, 1940- | Date: 1970,
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    La Folie et les fous littéraires en Espagne, 1500-1650 / [Martine Bigeard].

    | Bigeard, Martine | Date: 1972
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Mental Disorders
History, 16th Century
History, 19th Century
Medicine in Literature
Great Britain
Intellectual disability in literature
Drama - English
Literature - English
History, 20th Century

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