عنوان

Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England :

(Number (ISBN

1107008352 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781107008359 (hardback)

Number

b519799

Title Proper

Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

spaces of demonism, divinity, and drama /

First Statement of Responsibility

Kristen Poole

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 289 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: 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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Text of Note

"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"--

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism

Religion and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century

Religion and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century

Space in literature

Supernatural-- History-- 16th century

Supernatural-- History-- 17th century

Supernatural in literature

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Poole, Kristen

Date of Transaction

20110927001614.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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