The Staging Of Witchcraft And A Spectacle Of Strangeness
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The Staging Of Witchcraft And A Spectacle Of Strangeness
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Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2014-10-09
The Staging Of Witchcraft And A Spectacle Of Strangeness written by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Drama categories.
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.
The Visual Spectacle Of Witchcraft In Jacobean Plays
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Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2014-10-13
The Visual Spectacle Of Witchcraft In Jacobean Plays written by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays: Blackfriars Theatre is an ideal reference for early modern scholars and lecturers who seek a thorough and practical guide to stage directions in print and performance, and paying particular attention to the early texts as evidence of performance practice. Stage directions here are re-thought in the light of early theatre practice, and the issues of stage directions as evidence of performance practice and later interpolations, in association with witchcraft, of several Jacobean plays can be found in this book. This book includes a general introduction to Blackfriars witchcraft plays and the Jacobean theatre, a chronology, suggestions for further reading and discussing performance options on both indoor and outdoor playhouses, and a commentary. The illuminating and informative general introduction and the short introductions to individual plays have been revised in the light of current scholarship.
Witchcraft And The Act Of 1604
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Witchcraft And The Act Of 1604 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with History categories.
This volume examines both the events that shaped the Jacobean Witchcraft Act, and its subsequent impact on the culture and society of seventeenth-century England until its repeal in 1736.
Operative Witchcraft
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Author : Nigel Pennick
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Operative Witchcraft written by Nigel Pennick and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A comprehensive look at the history and practices of rural English witchcraft • Explores witch’s familiars and fetches, animal magic, and the forms of witchcraft practiced by rural tradespeople, such as blacksmiths, herbalists, and artisans • Offers practical insight into spells, charms, folk incantations, herbal medicine practices, amulets, sigils, and tools of the craft • Details the evolution of public perception of witchcraft throughout England’s history, including the laws against witchcraft in place until the 1950s and witchcraft’s contentious relationship with the Christian church In this practical guide, Nigel Pennick takes the reader on a journey through the practice of operative witchcraft in the British Isles from the Middle Ages and the Elizabethan era to the decriminalization of witchcraft in the 1950s and its practice today. Highlighting uniquely English traditions, Pennick explores fetches and witch’s familiars, animal magic, and the forms of witchcraft practiced by rural tradespeople, such as blacksmiths, herbalists, and artisans, to enhance their professional work and compel others to do their bidding, both man and beast. He provides actual spells, charms, and folk incantations, along with details about the magical use of a variety of herbs, including nightshades, the creation of amulets and sigils, protection against the Evil Eye, and the use of aromatic oils. Pennick explains the best times of day for different types of magic, how to identify places of power, and the use of the paraphernalia of operative witchcraft, such as the broom, the witches’ dial, and pins, nails and thorns. He explores the belief in three different types of witches: white witches, who offer help and healing for a fee; black witches, who harm others; and gray witches, who practice both white and black magic. Examining witchcraft’s contentious relationship with the Christian church, he investigates the persecution of witches throughout the UK and the British West Indies up until the mid-20th century. He offers a look into the changing public perceptions of witchcraft and the treatment of its followers as well as revealing how English churchmen would offer magical solutions to the perceived threat of black witchcraft. Painting an in-depth picture of English witchcraft, including how it relates to and differs from modern Wicca, Pennick reveals the foundation from which modern witchcraft arose. He shows how this context is necessary to effectively use these ancient skills and techniques and how the evolution of witchcraft will continue harmonizing the old ways with the new.
The Witch In History
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Author : Diane Purkiss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
The Witch In History written by Diane Purkiss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
Shakespeare S Lyric Stage
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Author : Seth Lerer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-11-29
Shakespeare S Lyric Stage written by Seth Lerer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with Performing Arts categories.
What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare’s late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recuperate for these “victims of history” by virtue of its disjointed utterances. To this end, Lerer establishes the concept of mythic lyricism: an estranging use of songs and poetry that functions to recreate the past as present, to empower the mythic dead, and to restore a bit of magic to the commonplaces and commodities of Jacobean England. Reading against the devotion to form and prosody common in Shakespeare scholarship, Lerer’s account of lyric utterance’s vexed role in his late works offers new ways to understand generational distance and cultural change throughout the playwright’s oeuvre.
Shakespearean Criticism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Shakespearean Criticism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes 27-56 focus on criticism published after 1960 and provide readers with thematic approaches to Shakespeare's works. The plays, theme or focus of this volume include: Magic and the supernatural, Macbeth, A midsummer night's dream, and The tempest. - Publisher.
Shakespeare S Cross Cultural Encounters
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Author : Geraldo U. De Sousa
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-13
Shakespeare S Cross Cultural Encounters written by Geraldo U. De Sousa and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-13 with Social Science categories.
In this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies. In this way, the dramatist questions the narrowness of a European perspective which caricatures other societies and views them with suspicion. De Sousa examines how Shakespeare defines other cultures in terms of the interplay of gender, text and habitat. Written in a provocative style, this readable book provides a wealth of fascinating information both on contemporary stage productions and on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.
Shakespeare And The Spectacles Of Strangeness
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Author : John G. Demaray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Shakespeare And The Spectacles Of Strangeness written by John G. Demaray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness pays close attention to genre, structure and issues of printing and textual scholarship. Demaray examines the First Folio printings of The Tempest and of printings of drama, masques, balets de cour, spectacle productions and stage documents. On the basis of these primary documents, Demaray is able to show the influence of the conventions of court presentations on Shakespeare's theatrical references, and to reveal new accounts of the imaginative significance of stage illusions designed by Inigo Jones in the early 1600s.
Studies In The Literary Imagination
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Studies In The Literary Imagination written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) categories.