Theatre, magic and philosophy : William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian legacy
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Theatre, magic and philosophy : William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian legacy
(Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series, 17)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-246) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, it investigates the structural commonalities of theatre and magic as contiguous to the foundational concepts of perennial philosophy, and explores the idea that the Italian thinkers informed not only natural philosophy and experimentation in England, but also Shakespeare's theatre. The first full length project to consider Shakespeare and John Dee in juxtaposition, this study brings textual and contextual evidence that Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor in The Tempest, is a plausible theatrical representation of John Dee. At the same time, it places John Dee in the tradition of the philosophia perennis-accounting for what appears to the modern scholar the conflicting nature of his faith and his scientific mind, his powerful fantasy and his need for order and rigor-and clarifies Edward Kelly's role and creative participation in the scrying sessions, regarding him as co-author of the dramatic episodes reported in Dee's spiritual diaries. Finally, it connects the Enochian/Angelic language to the myth of the Adamic language at the core of Italian philosophy and brings evidence that the Enochian is an artificial language originated by applying creatively the analytical instruments of text hermeneutics used in the Cabala.
目次
Introduction
Part I: Conceptual Framework and Historical Insights
1. Perennial Philosophy
2. The Theatre and the World
3. Magic
4. Common Features in an Interface with Religion
Part II: God, Man, Nature and the Arts
5. Worlds in Motion and the Domain of Nature
6. What a Piece of Work is Man!
7. Art as Imitatio Dei
Part III: The Sense of Wonder
8. Wonders and Cultures
9. A Poetics of Wonder
10. The Marvelous in Theatre
11. Dr Dee as Wonder Master
12. The Charmed Magician
Part IV: Vision and Spirits
13. Visual Turbulence
14. Vis imaginativa and Unsettled Fancy
15. Spiritual Beings
16. The Spirits and the Mind
Part V: The Power of Words
17. Renaissance, Reformation and Languages of Power
18. Lingua et Vox Angelica
19. What's in a Name?
Conclusion
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