Stages of evil : occultism in Western theater and drama / Robert Lima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lima, Robert.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 49.

Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism in literature.

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Physical Description:

329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2005]

Contents:

I The Matter of the Underworld

1 The Mouth of Hell: Damnation on the Stage of the Middle Ages 13

II Metamorphoses of Gods

2 The Masks of Harlequin: Daemonic Antecedents of the Commedia dell'Arte Character 47

3 The Pagan Pluto: Touchstone of Celestina's Magic in Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea 83

III Possession and Exorcism

4 The Primal Spirit: Sacred Frenzy in Euripides' Bacchae 101

5 Rites of Passage: Metempsychosis, Possession, and Exorcism in S. An-Sky's The Dybbuk 117

6 The Savaged Mind: Voodoo Terror in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones 137

7 Satan in Salem: Sex as Grimoire in Arthur Miller's The Crucible 147

8 A Matter of Habit: The Politics of Demonic Hysteria in John Whiting's The Devils 159

9 The Prey of the Vampire: Malign Decadence in Francisco Nieva's Nosforatu 177

IV Cauldron and Cave

10 Wither'd and Wild: Witches of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Stages 197

11 The Cave and the Magician: Chthonic Sanctuaries in Early European Drama 225

Appendix Bibliography of European and American Drama of the Occult 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-314) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0813123623

OCLC:

61859753

Publisher Number:

9780813123622