CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface ix
5. 1. What’s so Funny about Humours? Melancholy, Comedy and Revisionist Philosophy 1
6. 2. Comic Symmetry and English Melancholy 56
7. 3. Melancholic Dissonance and the Limits of Psycho-Humoralism 94
8. 4. Melancholic Ambience at the Comic Close 135
9. 5. Melancomic Time in Late Shakespeare 174
10. 6. The Philosophical Afterlives of Shakespearean Melancholy 213
11. Works Cited 234
12. Index 247