By Erika Mills ~ English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616) created characters that are among the richest and most recognizable in all of literature.
Tag: “And there’s the humor of it!”
English poet and playwright William Shakespeare created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality and health in the terms available to his age—that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. “And there’s the humor of it”: Shakespeare and the four humors explores the language of the four humors and their influence in Shakespeare’s plays. View the Exhibition