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Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stage /

Mary Floyd-Wilson's ground-breaking study explores occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in six early modern plays.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Floyd-Wilson, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Secret sympathies
  • Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's well that ends well
  • Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A warning for fair women
  • "As secret as maidenhead": magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth night
  • Tragic antipathies in the changeling
  • "To think there's power in potions": Experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi.