Shakespiritualism : Shakespeare and the occult, 1850-1950 / by Jeffrey Kahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahan, Jeffrey, 1964-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Literature and spiritualism.

Occultism in literature.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Shakespeare's ghost appeared again and again at séance tables in London, Paris, Melbourne, and Cape Town, as well as in smaller, rural settings. This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how its discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Shakespeare, poet of the impossible

Crypts and crypto-graphology

The afterlives of the authors

Furness and his poetic spirit

Knight visions

Beyond the academic fields we know

Appendix A: Glossary of spiritualist terms and techniques

Appendix B: A note on the spelling of spirit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9781137282200

1137282207

OCLC:

806013918