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And There's the Humor of It: Shakespeare and the Four Humors In-Person
On Display through December 31, 2016
- Date:
- Monday, December 26, 2016
- Time:
- All Day Event
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Library Lobby
- Campus:
- Health Sciences Campus
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.