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Justin Shaw on melancholy, race, Shakespeare and English literature

Justin Shaw tells us about the links between early theories of race and melancholy as concepts thought to be both unEnglish and non-white, and suggests that melancholy is very different to trauma in its lack of psychological cause or explanatory origins.

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  • Justin Shaw
  • Assistant Professor of English, Clark University