Colman E A
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 1986 Mar;20(1):30-6. doi: 10.3109/00048678609158862.
Modern literary criticism generally rejects the idea of off-stage lives for Shakespeare's characters. All we have is behaviour--the visible behaviour of 'Shakespeare's talking animals'. But a review of that behaviour in the light of DSM-III suggests a high degree of clinical accuracy in some of it. The depictions of Ophelia, Lear and Caius Martius Coriolanus supply examples.
