Humoral wombs on the Shakespearean stage / Amy Kenny.
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, pollutin...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Early Modern Womb; "receptacle and receiver of seed"; "evil quality of the womb"; "womb unmeasurable"; "swallowing womb of this deep pit"; Literature Review; Chapter Overview; References; Chapter 2: The Green Womb; "a green girl"; "sick and green"; "treasure of her honor"; "almost spent with hunger"; "with fairest flowers"; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Thick Womb; "the babe that milks me"; "compunctious visitings of nature"; "dunnest smoke of hell"; "the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff."
- ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 4: The Fertile Womb; "hard thing to know"; "pricklings and many wringings in her belly"; "the child brags in her belly already"; "the Queen's in labor"; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: The Monstrous Womb; "great delight and pleasure in the venerious act"; "copy of the father"; "you have too much blood in him"; "the child-bed privilege denied"; "blots thy father"; "ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb"; Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: The Tomb Womb; "bleed plentifully"; "bathe hands in Caesar's blood"; "Look on her!"; "smooth as monumental alabaster."
- "The sweetest flower of all the field""womb of death"; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: The Male Womb; "the womb of pia-mater"; "unpregnant of my cause"; "this mother swells up"; "tempest in my mind"; "there's the sulfurous pit-burning"; "give me an ounce of civet"; Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: Coda: The Exonerated Womb; References; Index.