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And There's the Humor of It: Shakespeare and the Four Humors

And There's the Humor of It: Shakespeare and the Four Humors In-Person

On Display through December 31, 2016

 

 

 

Date:
Monday, November 14, 2016
Time:
All Day Event
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Library Lobby
Campus:
Health Sciences Campus
Categories:
  Exhibit  

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality in the terms available to his age—that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors—blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm. These four humors were thought to define peoples‘ physical and mental health, and determined their personalities, as well.