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Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe

2016-04-01 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe by : Andrew D. McCarthy

Download or read book Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe written by Andrew D. McCarthy. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.

Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe

2016 English drama
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Book Synopsis Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe by : Andrew D. McCarthy

Download or read book Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe written by Andrew D. McCarthy. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe

2013 English drama
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Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe by : Verena Theile

Download or read book Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe written by Verena Theile. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader

2014-11-20 History
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Release : 2014-11-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader by : Helen L. Parish

Download or read book Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader written by Helen L. Parish. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time, providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The essays are organised around five key themes and areas of controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions; Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific, religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a perennially fascinating topic.

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage

2016-05-13 Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage by : Lisa Hopkins

Download or read book Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage written by Lisa Hopkins. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is staged and what the representational strategies and techniques might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.

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