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Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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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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