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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472432872
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English StageDDC classification:
  • 822.309377
LOC classification:
  • PR658.M27 -- .M27 2014eb
Online resources:
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 -- 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.
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.
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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 -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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