Shakespeare's Theories of Blood, Character, and Class
Rollins, Peter C. / Smith, Alan / Willson, Robert F., Jr.
Shakespeare's Theories of Blood, Character, and Class is a collection of essays that explores the works of Shakespeare by applying David Shelley Berkeley's approach to them as literary manifestations of Elizabethan political, scientific, and social thought. Elizabethan scientific and medical principles held that, from conception, human beings were endowed with either hot or cold blood, as a result, the moral nature of individual human beings w...