Magical transformations on the early modern English stage

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Magical transformations on the early modern English stage

edited by Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich

（Studies in performance and early modern drama）

Routledge, 2021

  • : pbk.

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Originally published: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014

"Published 2016 by Routledge" "First issued in paperback 2021" -- t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p.[233]-253) and index

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内容説明

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is staged and what the representational strategies and techniques might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.

目次

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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