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Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance /

Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period. To uncover how...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kenny, Amy (Editor), Peterson, Kaara L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
Subjects:
Literature, Modern.
Europe-History-1492-.
Drama.
Cultural studies.
Motion pictures.
Performing arts.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Cultural Studies.
Audio-Visual Culture.
Performing Arts.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Performing the Humoral Body
  • Like Furnace: Sighing on the Shakespearean Stage, Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland)
  • Performing Pain, Michael Schoenfeldt (University of Michigan)
  • Humoral Style(s), Robert Stagg (University of Oxford)
  • A 'dummy corpse full of bones and entrails': Staging Severed Heads in the Early Modern Playhouse, Amy Kenny (University of California, Riverside)
  • Part II: The Humorality of Objects. 'Having no heart': the Humorality of Toys and Games, Ariane M. Balizet (Texas Christian University)
  • The Virgin Queen's Mettle: Metallic/Medallic Portraits of Elizabeth I, Kaara L. Peterson (Miami University)
  • Passions, Fruits, and Botanical Paintings, Amy L. Tigner (University of Texas, Arlington)
  • Part III: Humoral Pursuits
  • . Seeing Saints in the Forest of Arden: Melancholic Vision in As You Like It" Kimberly Rhodes (Drew University)
  • A Familist Portrait: Negotiating Classical Geohumoral Discourse in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Paul Babin (Northeastern University)
  • 'Great Annyoyance to Their Mindes:' the Humors, Intoxication, and Addiction in English Medical and Moral Discourses, 1550 to 1830, David Clemis (Mount Royal University)
  • Afterword, Gail Kern Paster (Director Emerita, Folger Shakespeare Library). .