Afterlives of Endor : witchcraft, theatricality, and uncertainty from the "Malleus maleficarum" to Shakespeare /

This book examines the ways plays and poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser and Marlowe address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion and theatricality in light of legal and theological approaches to witchcraft trials in the early modern period, and it explores what factors determined whether demonologists...

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Main Author:	Levine, Laura, 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Demonology in literature. Witchcraft in literature. Uncertainty in literature. Contradiction in literature. Trials (Witchcraft) in literature.