Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare''s England - Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

Informationen zum Autor Kristen Poole is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Delaware. She specializes in the religious culture and literature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. She is the author of Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and has published articles in numerous scholarly journals. Klappentext Through detailed discussion of plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, Poole explores the supernatural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Zusammenfassung Kristen Poole considers the complex! paradoxical engagements of the demonic! the divine and the spatial environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello! Hamlet! Macbeth and The Tempest. The study explores how the convergence of Reformation beliefs and Renaissance notions of space affected English understandings about the supernatural. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Poole, Kristen (University of Delaware) Poole, Poole Kristen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9781107008359
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00835-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean