Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (eBook, ePUB)

Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural
Redaktion: Das, Nandini; Davis, Nick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book visits the wondrous, magical, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, studying the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted' practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world's ordinary functioning might be said to be 'enchanted', is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? The book asks what happens in theatre, as a medium that can give power to or curtail experiences of wonder, addressing plays that reflect contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317290674
• Artikelnr.: 47387007

Autorenporträt

Nandini Das is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. Nick Davis is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. A member of the Group for Research in Literature, Psychology and Medical Humanities, he co-edits The International Journal of Literature and Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
NANDINI DAS AND NICK DAVIS
Introduction: Dis-enchantments/Re-enchantments
1. JESSE LANDER
Demonism and Disenchantment in the First Part of the Contention
2. MAGGIE VINTER
Mortal, Martyr, or Monster? Working on the King's Corpse in the
Henriad
3. ERIC MALLIN
The Charm in Macbeth
4. AARON KITCH
Enchanted Materialism in Paracelsus, Hobbes, and Hamlet
5. MARGARET HEALY
"Wondrous" Healing: the "New Philosophy", Medicine and Miracles on
the Early Modern Stage
6. CHLOE PORTER
"Things which are not": Idolatry and Enchantment in The White Devil
7. JOAN PONG LINTON
Charisma and the Making of the Misanthrope in Timon of Athens
8. SARAH LINWICK
"The wealthy magazine of nature": Knowledge, Wonder, and Gunpowder in
Fletcher's The Island Princess
9. SARA SAYLOR
"Almost a miracle": Penitence in The Winter's Tale
10. ERIC MINEAR
Ghost-Stories and Living Monuments: Bringing Wonders to Life in The
Winter's Tale
Contributors