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Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stage / Mary Floyd-Wilson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2965 .F56 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Floyd-Wilson, Mary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Occultism in literature.
- Literature and spiritualism.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Secret sympathies
- Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's well that ends well
- Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A warning for fair women
- "As secret as maidenhead": magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth night
- Tragic antipathies in the changeling
- "To think there's power in potions": Experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107036321
- 1107036321
- OCLC:
- 827518075
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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