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 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 Ke...

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