{"id":5273,"date":"2025-02-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:40:51","slug":"and-theres-the-humor-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/2025\/02\/03\/and-theres-the-humor-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And there&#8217;s the humor of it!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>\u201cAnd there\u2019s the humor of it!\u201d Shakespeare and the Four Humors explores the language of four humors and their influence in Shakespeare\u2019s plays. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality and health in the terms available to his age\u2014that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors\u2014blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. The exhibition features rare books from the collection of the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition is open now through March 15 on Level 6 of McGoogan Library. The exhibit space is\u00a0open to UNMC and Nebraska Medicine communities through 24\/7 badge access. Questions about the exhibit can be directed <a href=\"mailto:history@unmc.edu?subject=Shakespeare%20exhibit%20inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">via email<\/a> to the Robert S. Wigton Department of Special Collections and Archives.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/shakespeare-and-the-four-humors\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">companion website.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd there\u2019s the humor of it!\u201d Shakespeare and the Four Humors explores the language of four humors and their influence in Shakespeare\u2019s plays. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality and health in the terms available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1183,"featured_media":5275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53,57,9,217,58,18],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library","tag-exhibit","tag-faculty","tag-history-of-medicine","tag-shakespeare","tag-staff","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}