Magic and masculinity in early modern English drama / Ian McAdam.
McAdam, Ian, 1960-
2009
PR658.M27 M33 2009 (Mapit)
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Magic and masculinity in early modern English drama / Ian McAdam.
Author
McAdam, Ian, 1960-
ISBN
9780820704241 (alk. paper)
0820704245 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
466 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR658.M27 M33 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.3/0937
Summary
"The prevalent worldview of early modern England, shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism, while also encouraging a strong sense of individualism, through which a new masculinity found expression. This study asks why, then, did magical self-empowerment retain such a hold on that society's imagination?"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
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Sex and magic in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Puritan magic in Doctor Faustus
Ambiguous magic in Shakespeare's first and second tetralogies
Shakespeare's comic actaeon and the turn to tragedy
Magic and nature in the later Shakespeare
Macbeth and the Jacobean witchcraft plays
Magic as emasculation in George Champman and Ben Jonson
The magician's garden: The tempest and Comus.

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