Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage by Gail Kern Paster

Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

Gail Kern Paster

274 pages paperback 2004

2 editions

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Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism--blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm--early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Ke...

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