Magic and masculinity in early modern English drama / Ian McAdam.
McAdam, Ian, 1960-
2009
PR658.M27 M33 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Magic and masculinity in early modern English drama / Ian McAdam.
Author McAdam, Ian, 1960-
ISBN 9780820704241 (alk. paper)
0820704245 (alk. paper)
Imprint 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.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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