It takes the average reader 3 hours and 23 minutes to read Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage by Amy Kenny
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This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the...
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage by Amy Kenny is 202 pages long, and a total of 50,904 words.
This makes it 68% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 38 minutes to read Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage aloud.
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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