Humoring the body : emotions and the Shakespearean stage

Humoring the body : emotions and the Shakespearean stage / Gail Kern Paster.

"In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way of interpreting the emotions of the early modern stage so that readers may recover some of this historical particularity." "Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, m...

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Main Author: Paster, Gail Kern
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Psychology.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William.
Drama > Psychological aspects.
Mind and body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Drama.
Literature, Medieval.
Emotions.
plays (performing arts compositions)
emotion.
drama (literary genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Literature, Medieval
Emotions
Drama
Drama > Psychological aspects
Emotions in literature
Human body in literature
Mind and body in literature
Psychology
Humor > Motiv
Körper > Motiv
Gefühl > Motiv
Emoties.
Lichamelijkheid.
Toneelvoorstellingen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Roasted in wrath and fire : the ecology of the passions in Hamlet and Othello
  • Love will have heat : Shakespeare's maidens and the caloric economy
  • Melancholy cats, lugged bears, and other passionate animals : reading Shakespeare's psychological materialism across the species barrier
  • Belching quarrels : male passions and the problem of individuation.

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