Jacobean psychiatry: Edgar's curative stratagems

Title: Jacobean psychiatry: Edgar's curative stratagems
Creator: Butler, Guy F
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 1988
Date: 1988
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457724
Identifier: vital:75674
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_52
Description: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries despair is seen as the abandonment of hope, a sinful refusal to practise one of the cardinal christian virtues. To be without hope in the world is to enter a mental prison in which life becomes loathsome and death desirable. It is the common prelude to suicide, an act condemned by state and church alike. To abandon hope in God's power to forgive sins, or to lose faith in the ultimate justice of Heaven, was to be guilty of blasphemy. The sui-cide, in rejecting God, sent himself to hell.
Format: 16 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Shakespeare in Southern Africa
Relation: Butler, G., 1988. Jacobean psychiatry: Edgar's curative stratagems. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 2(1), pp.15-30
Relation: Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 2 number 1 15 30 1988 2071-7504
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Butler, Frederick Guy (Prof)

RU Department of Literary Studies in English

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