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Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Editat de Nandini Das, Nick Davis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2019
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367175764
ISBN-10: 0367175762
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
NANDINI DAS AND NICK DAVIS
Introduction: Dis-enchantments/Re-enchantments
  1. JESSE LANDERDemonism and Disenchantment in the First Part of the Contention
  2. MAGGIE VINTERMortal, Martyr, or Monster? Working on the King’s Corpse in the Henriad
  3. ERIC MALLINThe Charm in Macbeth
  4. AARON KITCHEnchanted Materialism in Paracelsus, Hobbes, and Hamlet
  5. MARGARET HEALY"Wondrous" Healing: the "New Philosophy", Medicine and Miracles on the Early Modern Stage
  6. CHLOE PORTER"Things which are not": Idolatry and Enchantment in The White Devil
  7. JOAN PONG LINTONCharisma and the Making of the Misanthrope in Timon of Athens
  8. SARAH LINWICK"The wealthy magazine of nature": Knowledge, Wonder, and Gunpowder in Fletcher’s The Island Princess
  9. SARA SAYLOR"Almost a miracle": Penitence in The Winter’s Tale
  10. ERIC MINEAR
Ghost-Stories and Living Monuments: Bringing Wonders to Life in The Winter’s Tale
Contributors

Descriere

This book visits the wondrous, magical, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, studying the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? The book asks what happens in theatre, as a medium that can give power to or curtail experiences of wonder, addressing plays that reflect contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice.