Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Informationen zum Autor Mary Floyd-Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A recipient of a National Humanities Center Fellowship, she is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (2006) and the co-editor of Reading the Early Modern Passions: A Cultural History of Emotions (with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe, 2004) and Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern England (with Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, 2007). She has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Early Modern Literary Studies and Shakespeare Studies, and has co-edited a special issue of Renaissance Drama. Klappentext Mary Floyd-Wilson's groundbreaking study explores occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in six early modern plays. Zusammenfassung In this groundbreaking study! Mary Floyd-Wilson explores early modern occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in Renaissance drama! focusing on Twelfth Night! Arden of Faversham! A Warning for Fair Women! All's Well that Ends Well! The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: secret sympathies; 1. Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's Well That Ends Well; 2. Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women; 3. 'As secret as maidenhead': magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; 4. Tragic antipathies in The Changeling; 5. 'To think there's power in potions': experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi; Coda.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Floyd-Wilson, Mary (University of North Carolina Floyd-Wilson, Floyd-Wilson Mary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107559370
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55937-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean