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Author | : Amy Kenny |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2019-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303005201X |
This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception, alongside passages of Shakespeare’s plays to offer a fresh reading of (geo)humoral subjectivity. The book shows how Shakespeare subversively challenges contemporary notions of female fluidity by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and autonomy for female characters across his canon.
Author | : Appleton Morgan |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 1058 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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Total Pages | : 786 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Businesspeople |
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Author | : Edgar I. Fripp |
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Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Dramatists, English |
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Author | : John Hall |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1657 |
Genre | : Diseases |
ISBN | : 9780598937926 |
Author | : Richard Wilson |
Publisher | : Wheatsheaf Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : John Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1657 |
Genre | : Diseases |
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Author | : John Crawford Adams |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Beginning with a study of life in Elizabethan London, the book goes on to discuss the medical knowledge that was available to Shakespeare. It gives insight into some of the problems faced by ordinary people 400 years ago, with an account of their illnesses and how they were treated; and of how almost everyone was strongly influenced by deeply-rooted beliefs and superstitions.