"I Know My Physic Will Work with Him"
- Alternative title
- Elizabethan Medicine
- Synopsis
- Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. If you were ill in Shakespeare’s time you might be told to drink liquid gold or syrup of violets. You might undergo a violent purgation to take the bad humours out of your body. They might draw blood from your ankle or your arm. But while these treatments seem laughable today, elements of the thinking they were based on have come all the way down to us in the 21st century. That thinking, though it might seem unrelated to Shakespeare’s stories, is surprisingly present in his writing. Neva Grant interviews Gail Kern Paster and Barbara Traister about medicine in the era when Shakespeare was writing.
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Audio
- Recording date
- 23 Aug 2016
Credits
- Producer
- Richard Paul
- Contributor
- Barbara Traister; Gail Kern Paster; Neva Grant
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Subjects
- Drama; Medical sciences
- Keywords
- history of the 16th century; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); medicine
Notes
- Notes
- Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-55 (accessed 8/2016).
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How to cite this record
Shakespeare, ""I Know My Physic Will Work with Him"". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av77310 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)