Love-sickness

Disguised as a boy shepherd, Rosalind persuades Orlando to woo her under the guise of 'curing him' of his love-sickness...

Lenz sees the contagion motif functioning even more strongly in Troilus and Criseyde where it is Pandarus who operates as the agent of contagion, infecting Criseyde with Troilus's love-sickness. In both poems, Chaucer is seen to be playing with the Galenic theory of the humours as well as the conventions of courtly love.

But the love-sickness also got to Allen, taking the role of a woman who keeps re-playing in her mind the long-ago summer day when her husband disappeared at sea.

Traditionally characterized as a remedia amoris, an antidote for love-sickness, pastoral drama also carries a socio-political dimension, as Schneider points out.

Dressed as a boy, under the guise of curing Orlando's love-sickness, she daringly courts the man of her dreams.

The half-dozen cast as "sweethearts, wives, etc" gave an amusing portrayal of love-sickness for the dashing "Capyain" of HMS Hot Cross Bun.

So cuddle up and read Doc Holiday's prescription for love-sickness...

The star striker for Spartak, champions of the USSR, and the workers' football team, is struck down by a virulent strain of love-sickness and refuses to get out of bed.

And the hyperactive skits of country bumpkins wrestling with love-sickness has the audience not so much tittering as guffawing with laughter.

When Pandarus declares that, despite his own love-sickness, he will advise Troilus in matters of love, he refuses to divulge the identity of his beloved: "I love oon best, and that me smerteth sore; / And yet, peraunter, kan I reden the / And nat myself; repreve me na more" (1.

Finally, at the end of the nineteenth century, self-starvation was medicalized under a variety of labels--melancholy, hysteria, love-sickness, and chlorosis--before the triumph of the standard diagnosis as anorexia nervosa.