Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care / by Parris, Benjamin, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Heavy with care: Sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England -- Hercules asleep: Stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body": Sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear -- "Watching to banish care": sleep and insomnia in The Faerie Queene -- "Inhabit lax": Insomniac vare and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise Lost -- Coda: A vital rationality.…”
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Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care / by Parris, Benjamin, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Heavy with care : sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England -- Hercules asleep : stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body" : sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear -- "Watching to banish care" : sleep and insomnia in The faerie queene -- "Inhabit lax" : insomniac care and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise lost -- Coda: A vital rationality.…”
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