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Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

Note 14:2 — Chapter II · The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of History.

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Act iii. Sc. iv., cf. Jonson: “The Alchemist,” ii., i. Face of Dol:

“She is a most rare scholar, And is gone mad with studying Broughton’s works. If you but name a word touching the Hebrew She falls into her fit and will discourse So learnedly of genealogies, As you would run mad, too, to hear her, sir.”

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