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Laura Levine

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Date de parution

15 novembre 2023

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501772191

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions of witchcraft did these choices reveal? Pairing readings of demonological texts with canonical plays and poetry, Laura Levine examines such questions. Through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches-including Reginald Scot's skeptical The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), King James VI/I's Daemonologie (1597), and Jean Bodin's De la Demonomanie des Sorciers (1580)-Afterlives of Endor examines the way literary texts such as Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marlowe's Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality. Afterlives of Endor attends to the rhetorical tactics, argumentative investments, and underlying tensions of demonological texts with the scrutiny ordinarily reserved for literary texts.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 novembre 2023

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501772191

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Witchcraft

AFTERïVES OF ENDOR

W I TC H CR A F T, T H E AT R I C A L I T Y, A N D U N C E RTA I N T Y F R OM T H EM A L L E US M A L E F I C A R U M TO SH A K E SP E A R E

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Fîrst pubîshed 2023 by Corne Unîversîty Press

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Names: evîne, aura, 1955– author. Tîte: Aterîves o Endor : wîtchcrat, theatrîcaîty, and uncertaînty rom the “Maeus maeIcarum” to Shakespeare / aura evîne. Descrîptîon: ïthaca [New York] : Corne Unîversîty Press, 2023. | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers: CCN 2023023300 (prînt) | CCN 2023023301 (ebook) | ïSBN 9781501772085 (hardcover) | ïSBN 9781501772184 (paperback) | ïSBN 9781501772191 (pd ) | ïSBN 9781501772207 (epub) Subjects: CSH: Demonoogy în îterature. | Wîtchcrat în îterature. | Uncertaînty în îterature. | Contradîctîon în îterature. | Trîas (Wîtchcrat) în îterature. CassîIcatîon: CC PN56.D465 48 2023 (prînt) | CC PN56.D465 (ebook) | DDC 133.4/309—dc23/ eng/20230623 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2023023300 C ebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov /2023023301

Cover art: Wîîam Bake,Samuel Appearîng toThe Ghost o Saul. Natîona Gaery o Art, Rosenwad Coectîon.

or my amîly and în memory o the late Harry and Esther Levîne

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ïntroductîon 1. Judîcîa Procedure as Countermagîc înMalleus Maleicarum 2. Broken Epîstemoogîes: Bodîn and the Repudîatîon o Spectace 3. Our Mutua Fîend: Regînad Scot and the Exorcîsm o the Other 4. Strategîes or Doubt: Curîosîty and Vîoence în Kîng James Vï and ï’s Daemonologîe 5.Newes rom Scotlandand the Theaters o Evîdence 6. Spenser’s Fase Shewes 7. Danger în Words: Faustus, Sade, and the Demonoogîsts 8. Pauîna and the Theater o Shame Epîogue: Thîs ïs and ïs Not Magîc

Notes131 Bîblîography165 Index173

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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s

Chapter 7 o thîs book appeared în an eary orm înMagîcal Transormatîons on the Early Modern Englîsh Stage, and ï am grateu to Ashgate or permîssîon to reprînt ît. The dîscussîon o ambe în chapter 6 draws on a much arger argument whîch appeared în theMedîeval andJournal o Early Modern Studîes, în the îssuePerormance beyond Drama, and ï thank Mîchae Cornett, ïneke Murakamî, and Donovan Sherman or responses to eary drats o the argument. ï grateuy acknowedge the NYU Center or the Humanî-tîes, the Foger Shakespeare îbrary, the Natîona Endowment or the Humanî-tîes, and the ormer Mary ïngraham Buntîng ïnstîtute or provîdîng tîme to conduct research, as we as New York Unîversîty’s wîder support o my work. Mahînder Kîngra has been a wîse and generous edîtor whose însîghts proved vauabe at every stage o the process and both press readers (subse-quenty unmasked as Jessîca Wînston and Jesse anders) ofered useu sug-gestîons and correctîves. ï thank Chery Hîrsch and Susan Specter as we or theîr paînstakîng work on the manuscrîpt. achan Sage Brooks, Zoe Sophîa Gray and Audrey Mîer provîded exceent research assîstance and ïsabe Do-ar’s resourceuness at trackîng down documents, încudîng undîgîtîzed man-uscrîpts durîng the worst o the pandemîc, was vîta to the book’s competîon. ï thank Jennîer K. Neson, Hans Peter Broede, and Chrîstopher S. Mackay, each o whom ofered generous hep on matters o transatîon. The ast two o these, aong wîth Stuart Cark, awrence Normand, and Gareth Roberts, have contrîbuted to the exposîon o împortant work about demonoogy în the ast ew decades. Athough ï have dîfered at poînts rom the concusîons o some o these schoars, ï remaîn grateu or the work they have done. ï owe much to the many coeagues, rîends, and amîy who read and com-mented on portîons o the manuscrîpt, as we as to those who responded to parts o îts argument presented at conerences. O these, ï woud partîcuary îke to thank Jîm Ba, the ate Harry Berger, Ann Baîr, Caudîa Burbank, Chares Donahue, Marîa Fahey, aura Gerînger, Eîzabeth Hanson, Juîa up-ton, Caro Martîn, Katharîne Eîsaman Maus, Subha Mukherjî, Katharîne Park, Annîe Saenger, Mark Sherman, Danîe Spector, and Jane Tyus, the ast o

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