Enchantment and dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and early modern drama : wonder, the scared, and the supernatural

著者

• Das, Nandini
• Davis, Nick

書誌事項

Enchantment and dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and early modern drama : wonder, the scared, and the supernatural

edited by Nandini Das and Nick Davis

（Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 33）

Routledge, 2017

• : hbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with 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? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

目次

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

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB2288735X
• ISBN:
  • 9781138184664
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 193 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 822.3
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA64692677