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Humoring the Body

Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

By: Gail Kern Paster

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Humoring the Body

Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

By: Gail Kern Paster

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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University of Chicago Press

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0226648486

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The Body Embarrassed

Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

By: Gail Kern Paster

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The Body Embarrassed

Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

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Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the visible social body and the history of the subject's body as experienced from within. Focusing on specific bodily functions and on changes in the forms of embarrassment associated with them, Paster extends the insights of such critics and theorists as Mikhail Bakhtin, Norbert Elias, and Thomas Laqueur. She first surveys comic depictions of incontinent women as "leaky vessels" requiring patriarchal management and then considers the relation between medical bloodletting practices and the gender implications of blood symbolism. Next she relates the practice of purging to the theme of shame and assays ideas about pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing in medical and other nonliterary texts. Paster then turns to the use of reproductive processes in the plot structures of key Shakespeare plays and in Dekker's, Ford's, and Rowley's Witch of Edmonton. Including twelve vivid illustrations, The Body Embarrassed will be fascinating reading for students and scholars in the fields of Renaissance studies, gender studies, literary theory, the history of drama, and cultural history.

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Cornell University Press

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1501724495

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The Body Embarrassed

Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

By: Gail Kern Paster

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Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

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Humoring the Body

Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

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The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

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The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

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Gail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson. Paster moves beyond the usual presentation of the city-country dichotomy to reveal a series of oppositions that operate within the city's walls. These oppositions—city of God and city of man, Jerusalem and Rome, bride of the Lamb and whore of Babylon, ideal and real—together create a dual image of the city as a visionary ideal society and as a predatory trap, founded in fratricide, shadowed in guilt. In the theater, this duality affects the fate of early modern city dwellers, who exemplify even as they are controlled by this contradictory reality.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820338575

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9780820338576

The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

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Humoring the Body

Humoring the Body

The Body Embarrassed

The Body Embarrassed

The Body Embarrassed

The Body Embarrassed

Humoring the Body

Humoring the Body

The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

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