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Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Lauren Kassell (Reader in the History of Science and Medicine, Cambridge) gives a talk for the Bodleian libraries.
If the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet had lived in London, they might have consulted the astrologer-physician Simon Forman, whose casebook is shown in the exhibition Shakespeare's Dead. Lauren Kassell looks into the working life of a medical practitioner in Shakespeare's England.

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Series
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
People
Lauren Kassell
Keywords
shakespeare
Medicine
alchemy
astrology
history
medical history
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 30/06/2016
Duration: 00:35:50

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