Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

• Main Author: Kenny, Amy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .