Erin Welsh
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Is he dying of venereal disease?
Is he getting the all clear?
And just these intense questions
emotional perspectives of how someone's relationship is changing based on a diagnosis.
And I thought that was just a really fascinating glimpse into the effect that this disease could have on someone's life.
Yeah.
It's fun.
I was like, we need a TV show based on this diary.
Thank you.
I think we have an idea in place.
Let's go.
In addition to these court records, advertisements, personal diaries, the pox also makes an appearance in creative work from this era, whether it's in a song or a book or a play or an opera or something like that.
When it does make an appearance, what did it signify?
It's always up for debate.
Exactly.
Of course.
Of course.
And so even when this idea of where it came from shifted, it still was women at the source of it.
They're like, were men ever blamed or was it ever thought like this is his fault for, you know, whatever?
Yeah.