Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction: Naming of Parts: Barber, Surgeon and Barber-Surgeon -- 1. 'Settinge up a shoppe': Inventories and Props -- 2. 'Lend me thy basin, apron and razor': Disguise, (Mis)Appropriation and Play -- 3. Semiotics of Barber-Surgery in Shakespeare: Chair and Basin -- 4. 'And pleasant harmonie shall sound in your eares': Ballads, Music and Groans, Snip-snaps, Fiddlesticks, Ear-picks and Wax -- 5. 'An unnecessary flood of words'? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Through a rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England, exploring what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world
