Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION: Possession and Exorcism on the Stage
  • Possession and the Modern Historian: Psycho-Pathology and Cultural Meaning
  • Possession, Exorcism and the New Historicism
  • The Organisation of this Book
  • CHAPTER ONE: POSSESSION AND SELFHOOD: This Strange Fury: Possession and the Masculine Self
  • Pinch's Patients: Exorcism and Inwardness in The Comedy of Errors
  • Sad and Merry Madness: Possession and Selfhood in Twelfth Night
  • Unaccommodated Man: King Lear and the Loss of Exorcism
  • Histerica passio: King Lear, Possession and Masculine Identity
  • CHAPTER TWO: EXORCISM AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGION: The Companions of Antichrist: Exorcism and Orthodox Eschatology
  • Little Darrel's Tricks: Possession in Volpone and The Devil Is an Ass
  • The Shop of Satan: Jonson and Eschatology
  • A Spit Red Hot: Jonson and Popular Witchcraft Beliefs
  • Poor and Envious Witchcraft: Demonology and The Masque of Queens
  • A Most Miraculous Work: Macbeth and Demonological Scepticism
  • CHAPTER THREE: POSSESSION, EXORCISM AND THEATRE: Did I Do't well Enough? Exorcism and Fraud on the Stage
  • 'Tis In His Belly: Exorcism and Theatre in Ben Jonson
  • Thy Life's a Miracle: Exorcism, Theatre and Miracles in Shakespeare.