The reasons behind why we put ourselves through listening to sad music. Robert Burton’s study of melancholy doesn’t just focus on low points, it also takes the reader to the dizzying heights ...

The Anatomy of Melancholy was written more than 400 years ago, but Robert Burton's masterpiece is strangely modern. Although it brims with quaint language and Latin quotes, it also resembles a ...

An Anatomy of Melancholy is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book one in the process of being made As handdrawn illustrations appear slowly and ...