Afterlives of Endor : witchcraft, theatricality, and uncertainty from the "Malleus maleficarum" to Shakespeare / Laura Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Laura, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demonology in literature.

Witchcraft in literature.

Uncertainty in literature.

Contradiction in literature.

Trials (Witchcraft) in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This book examines the ways plays and poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality in light of legal and theological approaches to witchcraft trials in the early modern period, and it explores what factors determined whether demonologists imagined trial as theater through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Judicial procedure as countermagic in Malleus maleficarum

Broken epistemologies: Bodin and the repudiation of spectacle

Our mutual fiend: Reginald Scot and the exorcism of the other

Strategies for doubt: curiosity and violence in King James VI and I's Daemonologie

Newes from Scotland and the theaters of evidence

Spenser's False shewes

Danger in words: Faustus, Slade, and the demonologists

Paulina and the theater of shame

This is and is not magic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Levine, Laura, 1955- Afterlives of Endor.

ISBN:

9781501772085

1501772082

9781501772184

150177218X

OCLC:

1385503890

Publisher Number:

90102326315