As You Like It is distinctive within the body of Shakespeare’s comedies in the assiduousness with which it systematically explores a single impure condition: melancholy, which enjoyed a vogue in popular entertainment during the last decade of Elizabeth I’s reign. The play centers on forms of interior pollution that together result in what Jaques describes as the corrupted “foul body of the th’infected world” that he would seek to “[c]leanse” through skillful raillery (2.7.59-61). Conventional scholarly wisdom identifies Jaques as the supreme melancholic not only in this play but in Shakespeare’s oeuvre as a whole. But Orlando’s volatility also can be attributed to another manifestation of melancholy, the result of “choler adust,” an overhea...
The Renaissance is often touted as the age of melancholy. For fictional personages like Hamlet as we...
This thesis aims to explore the relationships between dramatic texts and the Elizabethan topic of th...
Shakespeare's three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presente...
As You Like It is distinctive within the body of Shakespeare’s comedies in the assiduousness with wh...
Early Modern England developed an unprecedented fascination with melancholy as the ailment effective...
Fools and clowns in Shakespeare are multi-faced. Their presence in Shakespeare´s comedies made a gre...
Since Rosaslind tries to be merry despite adversity, she appears to be poles apart from the melancho...
Spots, stains and smears keep recurring in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, where they often appear as...
This thesis articulates the importance and influence of medical understandings of humoural theory, p...
This thesis examines the role of melancholy as a representational strategy in late 16th and early 17...
The long lasting tradition linking the cosmos and the analogical microcosm of man, which founded the...
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion an...
The language of idealism and skepticism in Shakespearean moments of disillusionment provides terms f...
Hippocrates, and later Galen, hypothesized that a person\u27s character was influenced by a combinat...
The heroes of the great tragedies of Shakespeare lose their way and manage, thanks to this drift org...
The Renaissance is often touted as the age of melancholy. For fictional personages like Hamlet as we...
This thesis aims to explore the relationships between dramatic texts and the Elizabethan topic of th...
Shakespeare's three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presente...
As You Like It is distinctive within the body of Shakespeare’s comedies in the assiduousness with wh...
Early Modern England developed an unprecedented fascination with melancholy as the ailment effective...
Fools and clowns in Shakespeare are multi-faced. Their presence in Shakespeare´s comedies made a gre...
Since Rosaslind tries to be merry despite adversity, she appears to be poles apart from the melancho...
Spots, stains and smears keep recurring in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, where they often appear as...
This thesis articulates the importance and influence of medical understandings of humoural theory, p...
This thesis examines the role of melancholy as a representational strategy in late 16th and early 17...
The long lasting tradition linking the cosmos and the analogical microcosm of man, which founded the...
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion an...
The language of idealism and skepticism in Shakespearean moments of disillusionment provides terms f...
Hippocrates, and later Galen, hypothesized that a person\u27s character was influenced by a combinat...
The heroes of the great tragedies of Shakespeare lose their way and manage, thanks to this drift org...
The Renaissance is often touted as the age of melancholy. For fictional personages like Hamlet as we...
This thesis aims to explore the relationships between dramatic texts and the Elizabethan topic of th...
Shakespeare's three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presente...