Stories
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Shakespeare and the four humours
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
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Humours heau'n on earth : with the ciuile warres of death and fortune. As also the triumph of death: or, the picture of the plague, according to the life; as it was in anno Domini. 1603. / By Iohn Dauies of Hereford.
Davies, John, 1565?-1618Date: 1609- Books
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The Humours of the present Irish Clowns. A pastoral. Inscrib'd to George Jones, Esquire.
Date: Printed in the year, 1738- Books
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The reform'd coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda. A novel. By Mrs. Davys, author of the Humours of York.
Davys, Mary, 1674-1731.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The last new prologue and epilogue spoken by the famous commedian Mr. William Pinkeman, touching on the Humours of the age.
Date: [1701?]- Books
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The life and death of Doctor Faustus With the Humours of Harlequin and Scaramouch; As Acted at the Theaters. By Mr. Mountfort.
Mountfort, William, 1664?-1692.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]