Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England
Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama
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- Author: Kristen Poole, University of Delaware
- Date Published: November 2014
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107463301
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Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest.
Read more- Presents new models for analyzing the supernatural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
- Draws upon recent notable studies of religion and studies of space/mapping, bringing these two prominent scholarly fields into conversation
- Enables a new way to address early modern engagement with the supernatural, as opposed to the previous focus on psychoanalytic or social history methodologies
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- Date Published: November 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107463301
- length: 306 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Prologue: setting – and unsettling – the stage
Introduction: the space of the supernatural
1. The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus
2. Scene at the deathbed: Ars Moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural
3. When hell freezes over: the fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography
4. Metamorphic cosmologies: the world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth
5. Divine geometry in a geodetic age: surveying, God, and The Tempest
Epilogue: re-enchanting geography.
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