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

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Floyd-Wilson, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Occultism in literature.
Literature and spiritualism.
Women in literature.
Occultisme dans la littérature.
Littérature et spiritisme.
Femmes dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Literature and spiritualism
Occultism in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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