Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean StageUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 nov. 2010 - 288 sidor 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, Paster identifies a historical phenomenology in the language of affect by reconciling the significance of the four humors as the language of embodied emotion. She urges modern readers to resist the influence of post-Cartesian abstraction and the disembodiment of human psychology lest they miss the body-mind connection that still existed for Shakespeare and his contemporaries and constrained them to think differently about how their emotions were embodied in a premodern world. |
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... heart, his chest. What the com- monplace comparisons of the passions to winds and oceans tell us as stu- dents of the period is just how overwhelming the passions were understood to be. While reason and passion, or reason and sense ...
... heart, his chest. What the com- monplace comparisons of the passions to winds and oceans tell us as stu- dents of the period is just how overwhelming the passions were understood to be. While reason and passion, or reason and sense ...
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... heart — as proven by the individual subject's experience of its changes : “ who loueth extreamely , and feeleth not that passion to dis- solue his heart ? who reioyceth and proueth not his heart dilated ? who is moyled with heauinesse ...
... heart — as proven by the individual subject's experience of its changes : “ who loueth extreamely , and feeleth not that passion to dis- solue his heart ? who reioyceth and proueth not his heart dilated ? who is moyled with heauinesse ...
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... heart made perfect sense in a cosmological model of the world governed by the interaction of the four qualities — cold , hot , moist , and dry . Behaviors were understood as the expression of the interac- tion of the four qualities ...
... heart made perfect sense in a cosmological model of the world governed by the interaction of the four qualities — cold , hot , moist , and dry . Behaviors were understood as the expression of the interac- tion of the four qualities ...
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... heart's commands . This is how the passions altered and were altered by the body . Wright describes the ... heart , where they pitch at the dore , signifying what an obiect was presented ... The heart immediatly bendeth , either to ...
... heart's commands . This is how the passions altered and were altered by the body . Wright describes the ... heart , where they pitch at the dore , signifying what an obiect was presented ... The heart immediatly bendeth , either to ...
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... heart, humors, and body, diuers sorts of persons be subiect to diuers sorts of passions, and the same passion ... hearts be consumed (almost) with choller they neuer cease, except they be reuenged. (37) Here, as in Reynolds earlier, we ...
... heart, humors, and body, diuers sorts of persons be subiect to diuers sorts of passions, and the same passion ... hearts be consumed (almost) with choller they neuer cease, except they be reuenged. (37) Here, as in Reynolds earlier, we ...
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The Ecology of the Passions in Hamlet and Othello | 25 |
Shakespeares Maidens and the Caloric Economy | 77 |
Reading Shakespeares Psychological Materialism across the Species Barrier | 135 |
Male Passions and the Problem of Individuation | 189 |
Epilogue | 243 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 261 |
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Sida 107 - Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...
Sida 70 - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Sida 56 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Sida 141 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Sida 114 - Ay, there's the point. — As, — to be bold with you,— Not to affect many proposed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree ; Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends : Foh ! one may smell, in such, a will ' most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Sida 65 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Sida 49 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Sida 54 - ... play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Sida 107 - A maiden never bold ; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blush'd at herself : and she, — in spite of nature.