Faint Slumbers: Shakespeare from a Military Veteran’s Perspective

HowlRound: Shakespeare, in my humble opinion, wrote the best description in the English language of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). In Henry IV, part one, Lady Percy is talking to her husband, a combat veteran, who is about to redeploy to combat (2.3). Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay in his book, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, clinically breaks down her monologue