There is so much misinformation about mental illness today, even with today’s amount of scientific studies. There must have been a huge mistreatment of mentally ill people due to superstition and fear before there was science, it is astounding to think about. I don’t know all the sources of the fear, except religion and non accurate studies of the body. In the time of Shakespeare, people believed four fluids in your body controlled your emotions. For example, an unbalance of a particular fluid caused Depression. How did this impact how doctors cured mental illness, or the treatment of mental ill people? However it was, Shakespeare was certainly interested in mentally ill people, with characters like the Macbeths, and Hamlet. As we read his
