Laura Levine 
Afterlives of Endor [EPUB ebook] 
Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ to Shakespeare

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Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period’s anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions of witchcraft did these choices reveal? Pairing readings of demonological texts with canonical plays and poetry, Laura Levine examines such questions. Through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches—including Reginald Scot’s skeptical The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), King James VI/I’s Daemonologie (1597), and Jean Bodin’s De la Demonomanie des Sorciers (1580)—Afterlives of Endor examines the way literary texts such as Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and Marlowe’s Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality. Afterlives of Endor attends to the rhetorical tactics, argumentative investments, and underlying tensions of demonological texts with the scrutiny ordinarily reserved for literary texts.

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Laura Levine is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is the author of Men in Women’s Clothing.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 192 ● ISBN 9781501772207 ● 文件大小 3.7 MB ● 出版者 Cornell University Press ● 市 Ithaca ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2023 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 9151603 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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