Shrew taming and other tales of the four humors Paster, Gail Kern. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Humoralism Medicine in Literature Behavior -- physiology Emotions Literature, Medieval (Producer) William Shakespeare is widely praised for creating the most recognizable characters in all of literature, yet he understood human behavior in the terms available to his age--the classical theory of the four humors of blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy, The humors accounted for the health and actions of the male and female, young and old, rich man and poor man. It was the darker emotions of anger and melancholy that preoccupied Shakespeare, especially as they appeared in the madness of Ophelia and the shrewish resistence of Katherine Minola to her female destiny of wifely submission. Transfer; Stephen Greenberg, Public Services Librarian, NLM; 20120305; Acc# 2012-05. Bethesda, MD : National Library of Medicine, 2012 Greenberg, Stephen J. National Library of Medicine (U.S.). History of Medicine Division. Lecture Moving image 074 min. Sound Color Live action nlm:nlmuid-101579832-vid 101579832 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101579832 OCLC: 808768921 English The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/