What are the four humors

During today's class we touched on many different topic including humor, and not humor in the ha ha isn't that funny sense. Both Antonio and Shylock seem to be bound to their respective humors. What are these "humors?" If anyone is interested I found a basic description on the following website: http://www.answers.com/topic/four-humours .

My First Post

I've never posted a blog before. I'm thus far enjoying this play. Currently I'm coming up short for insightful comments about the work. I mainly just wanted to make this first post to say that, yes I can do this web log thing! Yes I can! I promise that future posts will be more entertaining. Marilyn