Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects and subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to effect transformation in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.
Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects and subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to effect transformation in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. Helen Ostovich is Professor Emeritus of English at McMaster University, Canada and co-editor of the journal Early Theatre.
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Introduction: Transformations and the Ideology of Witchcraft Staged Helen Ostovich and Lisa Hopkins Part I Demons and Pacts 1 Magic and the Decline of Demons: A View from the Stage Barbara H. Traister 2 Who the Devil is in Charge? Mastery and the Faustian Pact on the Early Modern Stage Bronwyn Johnston 3 Danger in Words: Faustus, Slade, and the Demonologists Part II Rites to Believe 4 "The Charm's Wound Up": Supernatural Ritual in Macbeth Alisa Manninen 5 Demonising Macbeth Verena Theile 6 Hermetic Miracles in The Winter's Tale Jill Delsigne Part III Learned Magic 7 "We ring this round with our invoking spells": Magic as Embedded Authorship in The Merry Devil of Edmonton Peter Kirwan 8 Boiled Brains, 'Inward Pinches', and Alchemical Tempering in The Tempest Jasmine Lellock 9 Profit and Delight? Magic and the Dreams of a Nation Lisa Hopkins Part IV Local Witchcraft 10 Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentleman, and One English Queen Brett D. Hirsch 11 'In good reporte and honest estimacion amongst her neighbours': Cunning Women in the Star Chamber and on the Stage in Early Modern England Judith Bonzol 12 'A witch, a queen, an old cozening quean!': Image Magic and Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Jessica Dell 13 'Gingerbread Progeny' in Bartholomew Fair Helen Ostovich 14 'My poor fiddle is bewitched': Music, Magic, and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton and The Late Lancashire Witches Andrew Loeb
Introduction: Transformations and the Ideology of Witchcraft Staged Helen Ostovich and Lisa Hopkins Part I Demons and Pacts 1 Magic and the Decline of Demons: A View from the Stage Barbara H. Traister 2 Who the Devil is in Charge? Mastery and the Faustian Pact on the Early Modern Stage Bronwyn Johnston 3 Danger in Words: Faustus, Slade, and the Demonologists Part II Rites to Believe 4 "The Charm's Wound Up": Supernatural Ritual in Macbeth Alisa Manninen 5 Demonising Macbeth Verena Theile 6 Hermetic Miracles in The Winter's Tale Jill Delsigne Part III Learned Magic 7 "We ring this round with our invoking spells": Magic as Embedded Authorship in The Merry Devil of Edmonton Peter Kirwan 8 Boiled Brains, 'Inward Pinches', and Alchemical Tempering in The Tempest Jasmine Lellock 9 Profit and Delight? Magic and the Dreams of a Nation Lisa Hopkins Part IV Local Witchcraft 10 Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentleman, and One English Queen Brett D. Hirsch 11 'In good reporte and honest estimacion amongst her neighbours': Cunning Women in the Star Chamber and on the Stage in Early Modern England Judith Bonzol 12 'A witch, a queen, an old cozening quean!': Image Magic and Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Jessica Dell 13 'Gingerbread Progeny' in Bartholomew Fair Helen Ostovich 14 'My poor fiddle is bewitched': Music, Magic, and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton and The Late Lancashire Witches Andrew Loeb
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