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Reviews 251 Dale Shuger's on Spain, too, was extremely interesting, as attitudes there were found to be far more prosaic and down to earth than in countries that seemed to study the imaginatively diseased with intense fervour. I would express only one minor disappointment. This is a historical book, describing how diseases of the imagination were perceived and treated in the early modern period. Approaching its subject cautiously, the book leaves one with the impression that no-one, in diagnosis, looked further than afflictions caused by the four humours and/or demonic possession. However, I would have expected at least some exploration of the possibility that there were, for example, dramatists capable of thinking of proto-Freudian explanations. I must declare an interest here, as I have myself worked in that area. But, leaving my own essays to one side, surely it is likely that, for instance, the content of Ophelia's `mad' songs about the sexual seduction and betrayal of a maid can appropriately be regarded as revealing Shakespeare's interest in repression and the unconscious? Joost Daalder Department of English Flinders University Holmberg, Eva Johanna, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination: A Scattered Nation (Transculturalisms, 14001700), Farnham, Ashgate,
Parergon – Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)
Published: Feb 14, 2012
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