That friend dies of a cold after fainting on wet grass and with her dying breath warns the protagonist: "Beware of swoons Dear Laura.... A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body [...] Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint—"

at the climax (this story isn't long or serious enough to worry about spoilers) the protagonist and her friend take turns fainting and "running mad" when they see an overturned carriage; they do this for an hour and fifteen minutes before noticing that one of its occupants is still alive

she's already so critical of the cult of "sensibility" and the conventions of the (romantic, epistolary) novel at such an early age, and with so much more bite (though less control) than in her satire of the gothic in Northanger Abbey

yes and he's actually included a link to the Odyssey in multiple tweets about the Iliad now

if only there were some word that combined these ideas...some sort of...logophallocentrism, perhaps...

those were hypothetical examples but I do recall a "neoliberalism" costume that included Neo's trench-coat from The Matrix and an "I'm with her" Hilary Clinton mug

See also "A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s Ass Play" by Richard Rambuss (disclosure: he was on my diss committee and is presently my boss)