Squibb academic lecture: Shakespeare and DSM-III.
Modern literary criticism generally rejects the idea of off-stage lives for Shakespeare's characters. All we have is behaviour--the visible behaviour of 'Shakespeare's talking animals'. But a review of that behaviour in the light of DSM-III suggests a high degree of clinical accuracy in some of it. The depictions of Ophelia, Lear and Caius Martius Coriolanus supply examples.
D004324:Drama; D004739:England; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*