Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe
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Codpiece Point
De Umbris Idearum
Early Modern
Early Modern Anxieties
early modern drama
Early Modern Stage
English Renaissance superstition theatre
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Felix Platter
Green Sickness
Hysterica Passio
lancashire
Lancashire Witches
late
Late Lancashire Witches
Lyly's Plays
Lyly’s Plays
Magical Impotence
memory magic
Mistress Generous
mother
Mother Bombie
National Biography
platter
popular magic beliefs
Prophetic Dreams
Prospero's Attempts
Prospero's Magic
Prospero’s Attempts
Prospero’s Magic
Reginald Scot's Discoverie
Reginald Scot’s Discoverie
religious polemic
Sir Tophas
stage
supernatural performance history
thomas
Thomas Platter
witch
Witch Play
witchcraft studies
witches
Wonderfull Discouerie
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138261716
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Verena Theile is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature at North Dakota State University, USA. Andrew D. McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA.
