1st Edition
Magical Epistemologies Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern English Drama
By Anannya Dasgupta
Copyright 2021
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book began with a simple question: when readers such as us encounter the term magic or figures of magicians in early modern texts, dramatic or otherwise, how do we read them? In the twenty-first century we have recourse to an array of genres and vocabulary from magical realism to fantasy fiction that does not, however, work to read a historical figure like John Dee or a fictional one he... Read more
Introduction 1. Cunning for a Soul: Religion and Magic in Doctor Faustus 2. Magical Theatricality in Shakespeare’s The Tempest 3. Fraudulent Magic in Jonson’s The Alchemist 4. The Virtue of Magic in Milton’s A Masque at Ludlow Castle
Biography
Anannya Dasgupta is an Associate Professor in the Division of Literature, and the Director of the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea University, Andhra Pradesh.
