Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance

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Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period. To uncover how humoralism shapes textual, material, and aesthetic encounters for contemporary subjects in a broader sense than previous studies have pursued, the project brings together three principal areas of investigation: how the humoral body was evoked and embodied within the space of the early modern stage; how the materiality of an object can be understood as constructed within humoral discourse; and how individuals’ activities and pursuits can connote specific practices informed by humoralism. Across the book, contributors explore how diverse media and cultural practices are informed by humoralism. As a whole, the collection investigates alternative humoralities in order to illuminate both early modern works of art as well as the cultural moments of their production.  Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction—Everyday Humoralism Bibliography Part I: Performance and Embodiment Chapter 2: Humoural Versification Bibliography Chapter 3: Like Furnace: Sighing on the Shakespearean Stage Bibliography Chapter 4: “Great Annoyance to Their Mindes”: Humours, Intoxication, and Addiction in English Medical and Moral Discourses, 1550–1730 Bibliography Chapter 5: Performing Pain Bibliography Chapter 6: A “Dummy Corpse Full of Bones and Entrails”: Staging Dismemberment in the Early Modern Playhouse Bibliography Part II: Art and Material Culture Chapter 7: Elizabeth I’s Mettle: Metallic/Medallic Portraits Medallic Portraits Metallic Portraits Bibliography Chapter 8: Seeing Saints in the Forest of Arden: Melancholic Vision in As You Like It Bibliography Chapter 9: Humors, Fruit, and Botanical Art in Early Modern England Bibliography Chapter 10: The Humorality of Toys and Games in Early Modern English Domestic Tragedy Bibliography Chapter 11: Afterword—No One Is Ever Just Breathing or, a Sigh Is (Not) Just a Sigh Bibliography Index