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Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
Buch von Amy Kenny
Sprache: Englisch

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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 acrosshis canon.
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.
Über den Autor

Amy Kenny is Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside, USA. She holds a PhD in Early Modern Literature and Culture from the University of Sussex and has worked as Research Coordinator at Shakespeare's Globe, where she was chief dramaturg for 15 productions and conducted over 80 interviews with actors and directors as part of an archival resource for future scholarship. She has published on dramaturgy, performance of laughter, the senses, and disease in Shakespeare.

Zusammenfassung

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 an inaccessible, interior space

Demonstrates how Shakespeare challenges contemporary notions of female volatility, inconstancy, and undependability by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and agency for female characters across his canon

Explores early modern medicine's attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: the early modern womb.- 2. The green womb.- 3. The thick womb.- 4. The fertile womb.- 5. The monstrous womb.- 6. The tomb womb.- 7. The male womb.- 8. Coda: The exonerated womb.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xi
202 S.
5 s/w Illustr.
202 p. 5 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783030052003
ISBN-10: 3030052001
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-030-05200-3
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kenny, Amy
Auflage: 1st edition 2019
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 216 x 153 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Amy Kenny
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,398 kg
Artikel-ID: 114888825
Über den Autor

Amy Kenny is Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside, USA. She holds a PhD in Early Modern Literature and Culture from the University of Sussex and has worked as Research Coordinator at Shakespeare's Globe, where she was chief dramaturg for 15 productions and conducted over 80 interviews with actors and directors as part of an archival resource for future scholarship. She has published on dramaturgy, performance of laughter, the senses, and disease in Shakespeare.

Zusammenfassung

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 an inaccessible, interior space

Demonstrates how Shakespeare challenges contemporary notions of female volatility, inconstancy, and undependability by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and agency for female characters across his canon

Explores early modern medicine's attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: the early modern womb.- 2. The green womb.- 3. The thick womb.- 4. The fertile womb.- 5. The monstrous womb.- 6. The tomb womb.- 7. The male womb.- 8. Coda: The exonerated womb.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xi
202 S.
5 s/w Illustr.
202 p. 5 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783030052003
ISBN-10: 3030052001
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-030-05200-3
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kenny, Amy
Auflage: 1st edition 2019
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 216 x 153 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Amy Kenny
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,398 kg
Artikel-ID: 114888825
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