Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof
    Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof
    Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof
    Ebook46 pages31 minutes

    Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof

    By Franklin H. Head

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    "Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof" by Franklin Harvey Head is a surprisingly insightful text from the late 19th century that aimed to look at the famed bard's fascination with sleep. Exploring the medical and scientific understanding of insomnia at the time, anyone who has ever been interested in Shakespeare, medicine, or figuring out why they struggle to sleep, will love this short and impactful book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 17, 2019
    ISBN4064066180805
    Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof

    Related to Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof

    Related ebooks

    Reference For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Song Starts In My Body

      Nov 1, 2022

      I wanted to see her body. I’m aware it sounds strange, even lurid. What I wanted was to see her read her poetry, and her body reading it. Something about Rukeyser’s writing made me feel that she was at home in her flesh, and I wanted to see her lovin

      21 min read

    • Article

      Solving Riddles, Reading Poems

      Nov 28, 2017

      Solving Riddles, Reading Poems
      6 min read

    • Article

      Must-Read Poetry: October 2017

      Oct 3, 2017

      Poetry is malleable and moving; a form that will never tire of importance. The post Must-Read Poetry: October 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Wisdom Of Shakespeare

      Apr 15, 2021

      “... the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was end is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” These words

      3 min read

    • Article

      Five Non-Fiction Books for Writers in an Emergency

      Jul 14, 2017

      I read non-fiction books that I thought might indirectly tell me something about fiction, even though they were really about something else. The post Five Non-Fiction Books for Writers in an Emergency appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Turning Point of All Things

      Dec 15, 2020

      RANDON BILLINGS NOBLE is an essayist. Her collection Be with Me Always was published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2019, and her anthology of lyric essays, A Harp in the Stars, is forthcoming from Nebraska in 2021. Other work has appea

      5 min read

    • Article

      On Literature and Consciousness

      Feb 18, 2021

      This is the greatest opening line in imaginative literature, because it’s the first one ever written. How can the invention of fiction itself be topped? The post On Literature and Consciousness appeared first on The Millions.

      12 min read

    • Article

      On Dreams and Literature

      Dec 28, 2020

      Dreaming and reading are unified in being activities of fully created, totally self-contained realities. The post On Dreams and Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      18 min read

    • Article

      Must-Read Poetry: January 2021

      Jan 4, 2021

      Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at six new poetry titles from the likes of Mark Wunderlich, Jackie Wang, and Allison Funk. The post Must-Read Poetry: January 2021 appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Meet Your New Favorite Poet

      Feb 20, 2019

      Meet Your New Favorite Poet
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Devil’s Taxi

      Oct 6, 2022

      The Devil’s Taxi
      26 min read

    • Article

      Building A fortean Library

      Nov 4, 2021

      It’s 50 years since Random House first published Colin Wilson’s The Occult: A History, and it’s still in print. Time for a re-assessment, then? Wilson believed himself to be a genius, and notoriously had no qualms about saying as much to all and sund

      9 min read

    • Article

      Why Every Farm Needs An Ass

      Oct 27, 2021

      Why Every Farm Needs An Ass
      5 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems by Geoffrey Hill

      Dec 15, 2018

      62. Why such irony in re the mystical context when a graph of even the most commonplace exchange would appear perplexed; when we drop out from the plainest statement in the posture of a bat? So, decide to make something of that, the style to resemble

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Matt Seidel

      Dec 9, 2017

      I tend to buy used books in bunches, which means the haul from some expeditions stays buried for weeks, months, years even. For this entry, I highlight three finds that, breaking custom, I bought and read almost immediately this year: Hugo Charteris’

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Celestial Memory Palace

      Dec 7, 2018

      The Celestial Memory Palace
      8 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      This Is Not a Defense of Poetry

      Mar 30, 2017

      The following remarks were originally delivered at the the Oslo Poesifestival 2016. A defense of poetry is a contradiction in terms. The honor to speak this evening, which I accept with great humility, though inevitably unnerving, I will use to cont

      12 min read

    • Article

      Poem Of The Week: Clock A Clay By John Clare

      Jul 4, 2022

      1In the cowslips peeps I lye Hidden from the buzzing fly While green grass beneath me lies Pearled wi’ dew like fishes eyes Here I lye a Clock a clay Waiting for the time o’day2 While grassy forests quake surpriseAnd the wild wind sobs and sighs My

      3 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Mar 2, 2020

      The pawn is the soul of chess. —François-André Danican Philidor, Analysis of the Game of Chess, 1749 But only when I am wrapped, naked, by these soft spring clouds of evening steam, as now, do I feel I could well become someone from a past age. The

      4 min read

    • Article

      More Than Meets The Eye

      Nov 3, 2022

      More Than Meets The Eye
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof - Franklin H. Head

      )bbook_preview_excerpt.htmlmVn6zy}q6èM ԗWJbUHʻ#.g')O9\f)5Ko͔N1$2V=-c)7ŽKE(NZ3̇Lܻ~̥݇{<i/?ii{B! U#/wW/w^](T9ź79,݇yxor~hSN2?ʛ5dPj:S%s>ܼxBqdz O(!xW9gɊG15<0&qiRDz:\ɝr~T9%~g|UY:u0gJ>s<T/OqJ5RU"ke&lVGe D*Y=,p^" 5#g ]b5 z Y?9Ƞp TȰ*Z겜Bp
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1