Stories
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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 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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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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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.
Catalogue
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Princes and territories in medieval Germany / Benjamin Arnold.
Arnold, BenjaminDate: 1991
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Princes and statesmen: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
Date: 1825Reference: 546743i- Books
Princes de la médecine : d'Hippocrate à Fleming / collection dirigée par Paul Ganière.
Date: 1959- Books
Princes, machines and the valuation of precision in the 16th century / by Bruce T. Moran.
Moran, Bruce TDate: 1977- Books
Princes and peasants : smallpox in history / Donald R. Hopkins ; with a foreword by George I. Lythcott.
Hopkins, Donald R.Date: 1983
