| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 265 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Studies in performance and early modern drama.
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| Summary |
Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects and subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to effect transformation in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction; Part I Demons and Pacts; 1 Magic and the Decline of Demons; 2 Who the Devil is in Charge?; 3 Danger in Words; Part II Rites to Believe; 4 'The Charm's Wound Up'; 5 Demonising Macbeth; 6 Hermetic Miracles in The Winter's Tale; Part III Learned Magic; 7 'We ring this round with our invoking spells'; 8 Boiled Brains, 'Inward Pinches', and Alchemical Tempering in The Tempest; 9 Profit and Delight?; Part IV Local Witchcraft; 10 Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentlemen, and One English Queen. |
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11 'In good reporte and honest estimacion amongst her neighbours'12 'A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean!'; 13 'Gingerbread Progeny' in Bartholomew Fair; 14 'My poor fiddle is bewitched'; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Magic in literature.
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Magic in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500 - 1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- editor.
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Ostovich, Helen, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Magical transformations on the early modern English stage. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014] 9781472432865 (DLC) 2014013543 (OCoLC)881824186 |
| ISBN |
9781472432872 (electronic book) |
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1472432878 (electronic book) |
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9781472432865 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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147243286X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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