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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | 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 imagined trial as theater through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 178 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501772085 1501772082 9781501772184 150177218X |