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Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

Af: Amy Kenny Engelsk Hardback

Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

Af: Amy Kenny Engelsk Hardback
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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.  

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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.  

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 202
ISBN-13: 9783030052003
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 3030052001
Udg. Dato: 8 feb 2019
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 148mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato: 8 feb 2019
Forfatter(e): Amy Kenny
Forfatter(e) Amy Kenny


Kategori Litteraturstudier: generelt


ISBN-13 9783030052003


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 202


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 148mm


Højde 210mm


Udg. Dato 8 feb 2019


Oplagsdato 8 feb 2019


Forlag Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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