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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
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Pages: 249
Authors: Mary Floyd-Wilson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and pr
Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Darryl Chalk
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-17 - Publisher: Springer

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This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays foc
Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World
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Authors: Caroline Bicks
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Cutting-edge theories of cognition inform readings of Shakespearean girls to show the dynamism of adolescent female brainwork.
Phantasmatic Shakespeare
Language: en
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Authors: Suparna Roychoudhury
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare’s artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reachi
Poison on the early modern English stage
Language: en
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Authors: Lisa Hopkins
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Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is