"Hysteria" is a term that can be used with varying degrees of precision, from
a psychiatric diagnosis at one end of the spectrum to any type of general panic at the other. In
the vaguest sense, all of records an outbreak of hysteria, which soon came
to be regarded as such. Within weeks of the trials, practically all those who participated in
them were trying to distance themselves from the proceedings. The witch-trials quickly came to
be regarded as an episode of temporary insanity.
Although, there is no
evidence that any of the characters in the play suffer from hysteria in its most...
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