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Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

Note 41:1 — Chapter II · The Presentation of Madness—from the Standpoint of History.

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Another interesting passage, no doubt satirical, but too long for quotation at length, occurs in “The Duchess of Malfi,” Act iv., Sc. 2: It begins:

“A mad lawyer and a secular priest A doctor that hath forfeited his wits By jealousy,” etc., etc.

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