| 书目名称 | Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage | | 编辑 | Amy Kenny | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Examines medical treatises, domestic manuals, and diaries to establish normative early modern ideology about the womb.Engages with semiotics to consider how the visual medium of the theatre appraised | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 acrosshis canon. . | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Medicine; Science; Body; Pregnancy; Macbeth; Juliet; Hippocrates; Anatomy; British and Irish Literature | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05201-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-05201-0Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 | | issn_series | 2634-6435 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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