The Magician Prospero In Shakespeare S The Tempest A True Renaissance Magus
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The Magician Prospero In Shakespeare S The Tempest A True Renaissance Magus
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Author : Juliane Strätz
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-08-22
The Magician Prospero In Shakespeare S The Tempest A True Renaissance Magus written by Juliane Strätz and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In Renaissance, the magus, the adept of natural magic, was considered a powerful man. He was not only aware of natural, mystical and magical phenomena but also of the “innate ideas within the mens”, which is the “intuitive, suprarational faculty within the soul”. He was seen as the good and white magician. Many scholars and intellectuals were either engaged in magic or at least knew about it. In the 16th and 17th century many writers, like Shakespeare and Marlowe, adopted the figure of the white or black magician in their works. In William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” the main character is Prospero, who is a powerful magician, too. He uses his magical powers to govern all events on the island and wants to leave nothing to chance. In doing so he uses different tools for magical support. He is a master of a learned art which enables him to use magical equipment like books, a staff or a magic garment. Moreover he commands natural spirits to play out a mimesis, which makes nothing on the island what it seems to be. Nevertheless, all of these actions follow a higher moral function. Prospero’s morality is shattered after the usurpation and betrayal of his brother. With the help of the power that he has on the island, he wants to “purge the evil from the inhabitants of his world and restore them to goodness” (Egan 175). In this process he is often very short-sighted and so he mistakes his powers with godliness and humanity with goodness. This paper wants to examine Prospero, the magus and thus asks the question, whether this figure depicts the natural magus of Renaissance times. Elementary to this examination is the assumption that Renaissance magic is real magic. People then considered their magic, miracles, spirits etc. real and not a trick. Thus when I speak about Renaissance magic, it is meant to be just as real as the people in Renaissance times considered it.
The Cambridge Companion To Shakespeare On Film
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Author : Russell Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-29
The Cambridge Companion To Shakespeare On Film written by Russell Jackson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema with strong coverage Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.
A Secret Book
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Author : Timothy Horan
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-08-18
A Secret Book written by Timothy Horan and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the supernatural and prophetic elements within Shakespeare's ten plays of English history: King John, Richard II, Henry IV (Parts One and Two), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts One, Two and Three), Richard III, and Henry VIII. Treating each as a form of nonfiction, it analyzes these plays and their prophecies through the lens of free will or fate, demonstrating how Shakespeare's characters are entangled with cosmic forces and the occult. The author makes several intriguing discoveries regarding Shakespeare's plays, beliefs, and the world he lived in.
Shakespeare The Illusionist
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Author : Neil Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-11
Shakespeare The Illusionist written by Neil Forsyth and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-11 with Social Science categories.
In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Méliès and what to the Lumière brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural elements—Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero’s island, for example—and sets out methodically, but with an easy touch, to review all the films that have adapted those comedies and dramas, into the present day. Forsyth’s aim is not to offer yet another answer as to whether Shakespeare would have written for the screen if he were alive today, but rather to assess what various filmmakers and TV directors have in fact made of the spells, haunts, and apparitions in his plays. From analyzing early camera tricks to assessing contemporary handling of the supernatural, Forsyth reads Shakespeare films for how they use the techniques of moviemaking to address questions of illusion and dramatic influence. In doing so, he presents a bold step forward in Shakespeare and film studies, and his fresh take is presented in lively, accessible language that makes the book ideal for classroom use.
Supernatural Fiction In Early Modern Drama And Culture
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Author : Ryan Curtis Friesen
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Supernatural Fiction In Early Modern Drama And Culture written by Ryan Curtis Friesen and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Drama categories.
Brings together authors of fiction with philosophers and academics in Early Modern England and compares their ways of describing and understanding the world; Explores popular culture as well as the culture of the learned and elite; Examines the intellectual consequences of the Reformation and compares the spiritual and doctrinal practices of the occult to those of orthodoxy. Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection of philosophers and playwrights, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton, explicating how each author defines the supernatural, whether he assumes magic to operate in the world, and how he uses occult principles to explain what can be known and what is ethical. Beliefs and claims concerning impossible phenomena and superhuman agency require literary historians to determine whether an occult system of magical operation is being described in a given text. Each chapter in this volume evaluates whether a chosen early modern author is endorsing magic as efficacious or divinely sanctioned, or criticizing it for being fraudulent or unholy. By examining works of fiction, it is possible to explore fantastic settings which were not intended to be synonymous with the early modern audiences everyday experience, settings where magic exists and operates according to the playwrights designs. This book also sets out to determine what historical sources provided given authors with knowledge of the occult and speculates on how aware an audience would have been of academic, classical, or popular contexts surrounding the text at hand.
The Anatomy Of Influence
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The Anatomy Of Influence written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Renaissance Magic And The Return Of The Golden Age
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Author : John S. Mebane
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Renaissance Magic And The Return Of The Golden Age written by John S. Mebane and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist) to magic, Francis Bacon often referred to it, and it was ever-present in the visual arts. In Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age John S. Mebane reevaluates the significance of occult philosophy in Renaissance thought and literature, constructing the most detailed historical context for his subject yet attempted.
The Tempest
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1623
The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1623 with categories.
The Tempest
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-12-01
The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-01 with categories.
The Tempest Study Guide
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publ
Release Date : 2004-01-01
The Tempest Study Guide written by William Shakespeare and has been published by Saddleback Educational Publ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
35 reproducible exercises in each guide reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills as they teach higher order critical thinking skills and literary appreciation. Teaching suggestions, background notes, act-by-act summaries, and answer keys included.