Author: Barnabe Barnes
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The Devil's Charter
Author: Barnabe Barnes
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496992814
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Staging of Witchcraft and a Spectacle of Strangeness: Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496992814
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Staging of Witchcraft and a Spectacle of Strangeness: Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Yale Studies in English
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Devil Theatre
Author: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843841142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The so-called "Devil Theatre" is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism, providing many new insights. Representations of demonic possession and exorcism rituals abound in English Renaissance drama, an area which this book seeks to illuminate by comparison with non-dramatic works. The author investigates stage images of possessionin relation to a range of early modern demonological, theological and medical prose texts on the subject, looking specifically at how the theatre responded to these texts. He argues that the stage appropriated debates over demonicpossession to explore the competing roles of the inner life and the body in early modern definitions of selfhood. The theatre also employed the contemporary controversy over possession and exorcism to investigate the politics ofreligion, and to consider the nature of monarchic power. Moreover, because demonic possession cases and exorcism rituals were frequently dismissed by conformist writers as a piece of theatre, they offered an opportunity to reflecton the nature of drama and role-playing. JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN is lecturer and research fellow at the University of Leiden.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843841142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The so-called "Devil Theatre" is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism, providing many new insights. Representations of demonic possession and exorcism rituals abound in English Renaissance drama, an area which this book seeks to illuminate by comparison with non-dramatic works. The author investigates stage images of possessionin relation to a range of early modern demonological, theological and medical prose texts on the subject, looking specifically at how the theatre responded to these texts. He argues that the stage appropriated debates over demonicpossession to explore the competing roles of the inner life and the body in early modern definitions of selfhood. The theatre also employed the contemporary controversy over possession and exorcism to investigate the politics ofreligion, and to consider the nature of monarchic power. Moreover, because demonic possession cases and exorcism rituals were frequently dismissed by conformist writers as a piece of theatre, they offered an opportunity to reflecton the nature of drama and role-playing. JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN is lecturer and research fellow at the University of Leiden.
A General Index to Hazlitt's Handbook and His Bibliographical Collections (1867-1889)
Author: George John Gray
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Nathanael Richard's Tragedy of Messallina
Author: Arthur Rowland Skemp
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1983
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Report
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Mines
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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