Shakespeare's World | Medicine and Sanitation
The relationship between human beings and their physical environment is an area of great historical interest and wide extent. It has fairly consistently been assumed that Elizabethan people were closer to the natural world, the soil, the seasons, and even to death than their twentieth-century western counterparts. This greater intimacy has been made to look alternately romantic or primitive, just as the mentality of the period itself has been seen as vibrant or melancholy. Shakespeare's contemporaries were perhaps better able than modern people to comprehend, if not to resolve,...
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