| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Secret sympathies -- Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's well that ends well -- Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A warning for fair women -- "As secret as maidenhead": magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth night -- Tragic antipathies in the changeling -- "To think there's power in potions": Experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi. |
| Summary |
Mary Floyd-Wilson's ground-breaking study explores occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in six early modern plays. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Occultism in literature.
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Occultism in literature. |
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Literature and spiritualism.
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Literature and spiritualism. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Floyd-Wilson, Mary. Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stage. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107036321 (DLC) 2012050275 (OCoLC)827518075 |
| ISBN |
9781107274143 (electronic book) |
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1107274141 (electronic book) |
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9781461934103 (electronic book) |
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1461934109 (electronic book) |
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9781139567541 (electronic book) |
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1139567543 (electronic book) |
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1107036321 |
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9781107036321 |
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9781107036321 (hardback) |
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