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Titolo |
Magical transformations on the early modern English stage / / edited by Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich |
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Farnham, Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, [Vermont] : , : Ashgate Publishing Group, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-10276-2 |
1-317-10275-4 |
1-4724-3287-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
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Soggetti |
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English drama - History and criticism - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 |
Magic in literature |
Theater - England - History - 16th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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