1. The Great Chain Of Being and Other Elizabethan Beliefs A look at the world in Shakespeare’s time

6. F our Qualities, Four Elements, Four Seasons, Four Humors season element humour body fluid location Spring air sanguine blood heart Summer fire choleric yellow bile liver Autumn earth melancholic black bile spleen Winter water phlegmatic phlegm (various)

8. Hamlet: Diagnosis: too much black bile Associated with melancholy and a tendency to focus on tragedy/creulty Hotspur: Diagnosis: too much choler Associated with ambition/energy/passion Bottom: Diagnosis: too much sanguine (blood) Associated with light-heartedness, confidence and spontaneity

9. The Zodiac