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’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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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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Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
Catalogue
- Books
Elizabethan life : wills of Essex gentry & yeomen preserved in the Essex Record Office / F.G. Emmison.
Date: 1980- Books
Elizabethan astrological medicine / by Carroll Camden.
Camden, Carroll, 1903-Date: 1930- Books
Elizabethan dyetary of health / Jane O'Hara-May.
O'Hara-May, Jane.Date: 1977- Books
Elizabethan life: morals & the church courts / F.G. Emmison.
Emmison, F. G. (Frederick George), 1907-1995.Date: 1973- Books
Elizabethan wills of South-West Essex / F.G. Emmison.
Emmison, F. G. (Frederick George), 1907-1995.Date: [1983], ©1983