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

Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

Gail Kern Paster

288 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Kern...

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