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  title info:
    title: Humoral wombs on the Shakespearean stage
  name:
    name part: Kenny, Amy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: the early modern womb -- The green womb -- The thick womb -- The fertile womb -- The monstrous womb -- The tomb womb -- The male womb -- Coda: The exonerated womb.
  note: Amy Kenny.
  note: Included bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Knowledge
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Characters
    topic: Women
  subject:
    topic: Medicine in literature
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Medicine in literature
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Uterus
  subject:
    topic: Body fluids in literature
  classification: PR3062 .K45 2019
  classification: 822.33
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
  identifier: 3030052001
  identifier: 9783030052003
  identifier: 9783030052010
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181105
    record change date: 20190718162636.0
    record identifier: in00004053125