1st Edition
Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural
Introduction Nick Davis and Nandini Das 1. ‘Wondrous’ Healing: The ‘New Philosophy’ and Medicine on the Early Modern Stage Margaret Healy 2. Hamlet’s Enchanted Materialism Aaron Kitch 3. Demonism and Disenchantment in the First Part of the Contention Jesse Lander 4. ‘Magic of Bounty’: The Making of the Misanthrope as a Corporate Individual in Timon of Athens Joan Linton 5. ‘The wealthy magazine of nature’: Gunpowder and Other Wonders in John Fletcher’s The Island Princess (c. 1619-1621) Sarah Linwick 6. The Charm in Macbeth Eric Mallin 7. Ghost Stories and Living Monuments: Bringing Wonders to Life in The Winter's Tale Erin Minear 8. The Idea of Secularization in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and All’s Well That Ends Well Blair Morris 9. ‘Almost a miracle’: Redemption in The Winter’s Tale Sara Saylor 10. Moriens, Martyr or Monster? Working on Richard II's Dead Body in the Henriad Maggie Vinter 11. Understanding Apollo: the Gods in Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale and Euripides’ Alcestis Susanne Wofford 12. ‘The Dead Shadow’: Enchanted Vision and the Poisoned Portrait in The White Devil Chloe Porter
Biography
Nandini Das is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Nick Davis is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. A member of the Group for Research in Literature, Psychology and Medical Humanities, he co-edits The International Journal of Literature and Psychology.
"Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural, edited by Nandini Das and Nick Davis, is an excellent collection of essays on the problem of secularization, broadly speaking, and on affective and formal dimensions that are typically associated with the otherwordly quality of many morality and mystery plays that persisted even when theater moved inside to fixed commerical stages." -- Henry S. Turner, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500 - 1900, Vol 58, No 2, 2018
