Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory’ and man himself a ‘quintessence of dust’; 2 or as a later non-fictitious … that is illustrious in publick life, all that is amiable and endearing in society, all that is elegant in science and in arts, affects him just with the same indifference, and even contempt, as the pursuits of children affect rational men.’ 3 … coming down from the classical world, it received a considerable cultural boost during the Renaissance period, partly through its representation on stage in works such as Hamlet and such Jacobean revenge tragedies as John Marston’s …
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