The Four Humours in Medieval, Renaisssance and Elizabethan ...

The perfect temperament resulted when no one of these humours dominated. By 1600 it was common to use "humour" as a means of classifying characters; knowledge of the humours is not only important to understanding later medieval work, but essential to interpreting Elizabethan drama" Michael Hanly . The Four Humours in the modern world ................
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