Stories
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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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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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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
Catalogue
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Temperament, personality, activity / Jan Strelau.
Strelau, Jan.Date: 1983- Books
Temperament und Charakter / von G. Ewald.
Ewald, Gottfried, 1888-Date: 1924- Books
Temperament and character / by Albert Ellis.
Ellis, Albert, 1913-2007Date: 1909- Books
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Temperament, disease, and health / by French Ensor Chadwick.
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919.Date: 1892- Books
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Temperament : an address / by David W. Yandell.
Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898.Date: 1892