Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance

Introduction.- Part I: Performing the Humoral Body.- Like Furnace: Sighing on the Shakespearean Stage, Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland).- Performing Pain, Michael Schoenfeldt (University of Michigan).- Humoral Style(s), Robert Stagg (University of Oxford).- A ‘dummy corpse full of bones and entrails’: Staging Severed Heads in the Early Modern Playhouse, Amy Kenny (University of California, Riverside).- Part II: The Humorality of Objects. ‘Having no heart’: the Humorality of Toys and Games, Ariane M. Balizet (Texas Christian University).- The Virgin Queen’s Mettle: Metallic/Medallic Portraits of Elizabeth I, Kaara L. Peterson (Miami University).- Passions, Fruits, and Botanical Paintings, Amy L. Tigner (University of Texas, Arlington).- Part III: Humoral Pursuits.- . Seeing Saints in the Forest of Arden: Melancholic Vision in As You Like It” Kimberly Rhodes (Drew University).- A Familist Portrait: Negotiating Classical Geohumoral Discourse in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Paul Babin (Northeastern University).- ‘Great Annyoyance to Their Mindes:’ the Humors, Intoxication, and Addiction in English Medical and Moral Discourses, 1550 to 1830, David Clemis (Mount Royal University).- Afterword, Gail Kern Paster (Director Emerita, Folger Shakespeare Library).<p></p>

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