What Are the Four Humors? Humors of the Body in Shakespeare's Works Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What do each of the four humours represent? Each humor is a bodily fluid, an excess of which was thought to cause certain illnesses and personality traits. Blood represents cheer and...
Word History:Physicians in ancient and medieval times thought that the human body contained a mixture of four fluids and that a person's health and temperament depended upon the relative proportions of these fluids within the body. In Middle English, these fluids were calledhumours,ultimately from...
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare comicality - the quality of being comical 6. humour - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you...
8.Ben Jonson’s masterpiece is a comedy of humours calledVolpone, and he was madepoet laureatein 1616. 本琼森的杰作是一部名为狐坡尼(Volpone)的喜剧小说,并于1616年成为诗人桂冠。 9.List any three of Shakespeare’s comedies:A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream,As You Like ItandThe Twelfth Night. ...
Eighteenth-century editors, working in an age of elaborately realistic stage sets, were the first to provide detailed locations. Given that Shakespeare wrote for a bare stage and often an imprecise sense of place, we have relegated l
central dancer has the asses’ ears on his hood in common with the other four figures, with an additional representation of the cockerel’s crest, the cock’s comb or coxcomb, a visual emblem meaning ‘Istrut about like a cock: vain, conceited, a fool’.In William Shakespeare’sHenry V...
8. Ben Jonson's masterpiece is a comedy ofhumourscalled___, and he was made___in 1616. 9. List any three of Shakespeare's comedies:___,___, and___. 10. The four great tragedies by Shakespeare are___,___,___, and___. 11. Shakespeare has produced two tetralogies of English...
explanation of the difference between Galen’s popular theory of the four humours using herbal remedies and bleeding as against Paracelsus’s more modern ideas about germs as external sources of infection and chemical medicines as cures. Shakespeare shows an awareness of both men and their theories....
You can also choose to read both Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice text and a modern English version of The Merchant of Venice online broken down by Act and Scene, or download an ebook version of The Merchant of Venice in modern English. Lower down this page is the complete text of ...
from the Shakespeare Tarot, by Chris Leech The Hanged Man teaches us to integrate the humility of Justice by moving from ego to soul through surrender into it, which allows us to see things from a new perspective — things which perhaps others can’t. We may not believe what soul is te...