Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

by Gail Kern Paster

Book Overview

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 Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621382X
• ISBN13: 9780226213828
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"