LEADER 03525nam 2200721 450 001 9910465501503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-317-10276-2 010 $a1-317-10275-4 010 $a1-4724-3287-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000225067 035 $a(EBL)1774205 035 $a(OCoLC)889675810 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334699 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11873614 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334699 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11276566 035 $a(PQKB)10398004 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1774205 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5294157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1774205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10957096 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL922662 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5294157 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL674649 035 $a(OCoLC)919106951 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000225067 100 $a20141030h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMagical transformations on the early modern English stage /$fedited by Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich 210 1$aFarnham, Surrey, [England] ;$aBurlington, [Vermont] :$cAshgate Publishing Group,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Performance and Early Modern Drama 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-43367-4 311 $a1-4724-3286-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a11 '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 330 $aConsidering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects and subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to effect transformation in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes. 410 0$aStudies in performance and early modern drama. 606 $aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 606 $aMagic in literature 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMagic in literature. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a822/.30937 702 $aHopkins$b Lisa$f1962- 702 $aOstovich$b Helen 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465501503321 996 $aMagical transformations on the early modern English stage$92174856 997 $aUNINA