Afterlives of Endor: witchcraft, theatricality, and uncertainty from the "Malleus maleficarum" to Shakespeare
"This book examines the ways plays and poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality in light of legal and theological approaches to witchcraft trials in the early modern period, and it explores what factors determined whether demono...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Demonology
/ English language
/ Literature
/ Witchcraft (Motif)
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBF British Isles NBH Angelology; demonology TA History |
| Further subjects: | B
Demonology in literature
B Uncertainty in literature B Contradiction in literature B Witchcraft in literature B Trials (Witchcraft) in literature |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Summary: | "This book examines the ways plays and poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality in light of legal and theological approaches to witchcraft trials in the early modern period, and it explores what factors determined whether demonologists imagined trial as theater through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches"-- Judicial procedure as countermagic in Malleus maleficarum -- Broken epistemologies : Bodin and the repudiation of spectacle -- Our mutual fiend : Reginald Scot and the exorcism of the other -- Strategies for doubt : curiosity and violence in King James VI and I's Daemonologie -- Newes from Scotland and the theaters of evidence -- Spenser's false shewes -- Danger in words : Faustus, Slade, and the demonologists -- Paulina and the theater of shame. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 178 Seiten, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-7208-5 978-1-5017-7218-4 |
