Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kenny, Amy (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern.; British literature.; History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; History of Science.

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, pollutin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: the early modern womb
• 2. The green womb
• 3. The thick womb
• 4. The fertile womb
• 5. The monstrous womb
• 6. The tomb womb
• 7. The male womb
• 8. Coda: The exonerated womb. .