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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage book cover

1st Edition

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage

By Lisa Hopkins, Helen Ostovich Copyright 2014
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other... Read more

Introduction: Transformations and the Ideology of Witchcraft Staged Helen Ostovich and Lisa Hopkins



Part I Demons and Pacts



1 Magic and the Decline of Demons: A View from the Stage Barbara H. Traister



2 Who the Devil is in Charge? Mastery and the Faustian Pact on the Early Modern Stage Bronwyn Johnston



3 Danger in Words: Faustus, Slade, and the Demonologists



Part II Rites to Believe



4 "The Charm's Wound Up": Supernatural Ritual in Macbeth  Alisa Manninen



5 Demonising Macbeth  Verena Theile



6 Hermetic Miracles in The Winter's Tale  Jill Delsigne



Part III Learned Magic



7 "We ring this round with our invoking spells": Magic as Embedded Authorship in The Merry Devil of Edmonton  Peter Kirwan



8 Boiled Brains, 'Inward Pinches', and Alchemical Tempering in The Tempest  Jasmine Lellock



9 Profit and Delight? Magic and the Dreams of a Nation Lisa Hopkins



Part IV Local Witchcraft



10 Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentleman, and One English Queen Brett D. Hirsch



11 'In good reporte and honest estimacion amongst her neighbours': Cunning Women in the Star Chamber and on the Stage in Early Modern England Judith Bonzol



12 'A witch, a queen, an old cozening quean!': Image Magic and Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor  Jessica Dell



13 'Gingerbread Progeny' in Bartholomew Fair  Helen Ostovich



14 'My poor fiddle is bewitched': Music, Magic, and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton and The Late Lancashire Witches  Andrew Loeb



 

Biography

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. Helen Ostovich is Professor Emeritus of English at McMaster University, Canada and co-editor of the journal Early Theatre.

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