03525nam 2200721 450 991046550150332120200520144314.01-317-10276-21-317-10275-41-4724-3287-8(CKB)3710000000225067(EBL)1774205(OCoLC)889675810(SSID)ssj0001334699(PQKBManifestationID)11873614(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334699(PQKBWorkID)11276566(PQKB)10398004(MiAaPQ)EBC1774205(MiAaPQ)EBC5294157(Au-PeEL)EBL1774205(CaPaEBR)ebr10957096(CaONFJC)MIL922662(Au-PeEL)EBL5294157(CaONFJC)MIL674649(OCoLC)919106951(EXLCZ)99371000000022506720141030h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMagical transformations on the early modern English stage /edited by Lisa Hopkins and Helen OstovichFarnham, Surrey, [England] ;Burlington, [Vermont] :Ashgate Publishing Group,2014.©20141 online resource (278 p.)Studies in Performance and Early Modern DramaDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-43367-4 1-4724-3286-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Queen11 '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; IndexConsidering 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.Studies in performance and early modern drama.English dramaHistory and criticismEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600Magic in literatureTheaterEnglandHistory16th centuryElectronic books.English dramaHistory and criticismMagic in literature.TheaterHistory822/.30937Hopkins Lisa1962-Ostovich HelenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465501503321Magical transformations on the early modern English stage2174856UNINA