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Author : Thomas Heywood,Sonia Massai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878301690
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Clara Louise Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1PV2
Author : R. A. Forde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0450501000
Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 067179275X
Alys, a young witch in Henry VIII's England, falls in love with a young lord.
Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher : Author House
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781496992802
The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:939667858
Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but with Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries her sanctuary is destroyed. She falls in love with Hugo, the feudal lord and another woman's husband. She turns to witchcraft to try to defeat her rival but witchcraft is punishable by hanging.
Author : Sarah Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108842198
An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.
Author : Tabitha Stanmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009286732
Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast – performed to a useful end for payment, and actually more common than malign spellcasting – has been overlooked. Exploring many hundred instances of daily magical usage, and setting these alongside a range of imaginative and didactic literatures, Tabitha Stanmore demonstrates the entrenched nature of 'service' magic in premodern English society. This, she shows, was a type of spellcraft for needs that nothing else could address: one well established by the time of the infamous witch trials. The book explores perceptions of magical practitioners by clients and neighbours, and the way such magic was utilised by everyone: from lowliest labourer to highest lord. Stanmore reveals that – even if technically illicit – magic was for most people an accepted, even welcome, aspect of everyday life.
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465550521
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290275785
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Katherine Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350044630
With the recent turn to science studies and interdisciplinary research in Shakespearean scholarship, Shakespeare and Science: A Dictionary, provides a pedagogical resource for students and scholars. In charting Shakespeare's engagement with natural philosophical discourse, this edition shapes the future of Shakespearean scholarship and pedagogy significantly, appealing to students entering the field and current scholars in interdisciplinary research on the topic alongside the non-professional reader seeking to understand Shakespeare's language and early modern scientific practices. Shakespeare's works respond to early modern culture's rapidly burgeoning interest in how new astronomical theories, understandings of motion and change, and the cataloging of objects, vegetation, and animals in the natural world could provide new knowledge. To cite a famous example, Hamlet's letter to Ophelia plays with the differences between the Ptolemaic and Copernican notions of the earth's movement: “Doubt that the sun doth move” may either be, in the Ptolemaic view, an earnest plea or, in the Copernican system, a purposeful equivocation. The Dictionary contextualizes such moments and scientific terms that Shakespeare employs, creatively and critically, throughout his poetry and drama. The focus is on Shakespeare's multiform uses of language, rendering accessible to students of Shakespeare such terms as “firmament,” “planetary influence,” and “retrograde.”
Author : Tabitha Stanmore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639730544
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of “service magic.” Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), they were essential to daily life. For people across ages, genders, and social ranks, practical magic was a cherished resource for navigating life's many challenges. In historian Tabitha Stanmore's beguiling account, we meet lovelorn widows, dissolute nobles, selfless healers, and renegade monks. We listen in on Queen Elizabeth I's astrology readings and track treasure hunters trying to unearth buried gold without upsetting the fairies that guard it. Much like us, premodern people lived in a bewildering world, buffeted by forces beyond their control. As Stanmore reveals, their faith in magic has much to teach about how to accommodate the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today. Charming in every sense, Cunning Folk is at once an immersive reconstruction of a bygone era and a thought-provoking commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408140208
Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt political world, the play explores the relations of the powerful to the disempowered; the opportunities and constraints of women trying to survive in a male-dominated society; the complex distribution of social hierarchy by birth, wealth, gender, race; and the way the skills licensed by the theatre itself – including disguise and both the performance and interpretation of character – become crucial survival skills, in a world of hidden motives and concealed intentions. Now comprehensively re-edited, with an introduction that addresses issues of performance, cultural and historical context, and interpretation, exploring the dark energy that has impelled audiences and scholars to return to this play again and again across four centuries. Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer the best in contemporary scholarship, providing a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary and guiding the reader to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the play. This edition provides: A clear and authoritative text Detailed on-page commentary notes A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts A bibliography of references and further reading ARDEN EARLY MODERN DRAMA General Editors: Suzanne Gossett, John Jowett and Gordon McMullan Visit the Arden website at www.ardenshakespeare.com
Author : Hugh Craig,Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107191013
This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Author : Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson
Publisher : British Drama 1533-1642: A Cat
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198719236
Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.
