Brings together authors of fiction with philosophers and academics in Early Modern England and compares their ways of describing and understanding the world; Ex

Beliefs and claims concerning impossible phenomena and superhuman agency require literary historians to determine whether an occult system of magical operation

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemp

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English

The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the eff