Eros and Etiology in <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i>

In <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i>, the creation of an academe where study is posited as the antidote to the diseases of the mind caused by worldly desire results in an epidemic of lovesickness. Lovesickness, otherwise known as ‘erotic melancholy’ or ‘erotomania’, was treated in contemporary...

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Main Author: Darryl Chalk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/6/152