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Analyzing Shakespeare's ideas on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of Italian Neoplatonism, this book offers a new perspective on the intellectual history of Renaissance England and Italy.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Conceptual Framework and Historical Insights
1. Perennial Philosophy
2. The Theatre and the World
3. Magic
4. Common Features in an Interface with Religion
Part II: God, Man, Nature and the Arts
5. Worlds in Motion and the Domain of Nature
6. What a Piece of Work is Man!
7. Art as Imitatio Dei
Part III: The Sense of Wonder
8. Wonders and Cultures
9. A Poetics of Wonder
10. The Marvelous in Theatre
11. Dr Dee as Wonder Master
12. The Charmed Magician
Part IV: Vision and Spirits
13. Visual Turbulence
14. Vis imaginativa and Unsettled Fancy
15. Spiritual Beings
16. The Spirits and the Mind
Part V: The Power of Words
17. Renaissance, Reformation and Languages of Power
18. Lingua et Vox Angelica
19. What’s in a Name?
Conclusion
About the author
Gabriela Dragnea Horvath teaches for the NYU Global Liberal Studies Program in Florence and serves as general editor for the on-line publication Voyages-Journal of Contemporary Humanism.
Summary
Analyzing Shakespeare's ideas on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of Italian Neoplatonism, this book offers a new perspective on the intellectual history of Renaissance England and Italy.
