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1 See Benjamin Reiss’s article “Bardolatry in Bedlam” for the ways in which doctors used Shakespeare to build cultural authority in the nineteenth century.
2 This line is deeply ambivalent. Thackery uses it to describe the arduous but heroic work involved in medical discovery; however, understood differently, it also foreshadows Christiansen’s suicide in the next scene.
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Altschuler, S. Shakespeare in the Operating Theater: A Review of Steven Soderberg’s The Knick, 2014. J Med Humanit 37, 347–349 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-016-9386-4
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