Title: Squibb academic lecture: Shakespeare and DSM-III. Author: Colman EA. Journal: Aust N Z J Psychiatry; 1986 Mar; 20(1):30-6. PubMed ID: 3524554. Abstract: 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.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]
