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Autore |
Paster Gail Kern |
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Titolo |
Humoring the body : emotions and the Shakespearean stage / / Gail Kern Paster |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-93287-X |
9786612932878 |
0-226-64848-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Drama - Psychological aspects |
Mind and body in literature |
Human body in literature |
Emotions in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Roasted in Wrath and Fire: The Ecology of the Passions in Hamlet and Othello -- Chapter 2. Love Will Have Heat: Shakespeare's Maidens and the Caloric Economy -- Chapter 3. Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Other Passionate Animals: Reading Shakespeare's Psychological Materialism across the Species Barrier -- Chapter 4. Belching Quarrels: Male Passions and the Problem of Individuation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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. Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, medical texts, natural histories, and major plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, |
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