Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama & Culture
Author:   Ryan Curtis Friesen
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
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9781845199593


Pages:   249
Publication Date:   01 July 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Ryan Curtis Friesen
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9781845199593


ISBN 10:   1845199596
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   01 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa & Sixteenth-Century Magic; The Supernatural in Giordano Bruno's Natural Philosophy; Early Modern England's Belief in Fictional Witchcraft; Fictions of Alchemy & Angelic Communication in the Confusion of Religious & Magical Fiction in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; Madness & Damnation: The Consequences of Macbeth's Magic; Witchcraft, Political Scandal & the Theatrical Moment of Middleton's The Witch; Alchemy & Witchcraft in The Drama of Ben Jonson; Magic in the Tempest: Shakespeare's Critique of Rough Art & Harsh Reason.

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Ryan Curtis Friesen is a Senior Lecturer in the English department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he has taught courses in medieval, early modern, and contemporary literature as well as composition since 2005. He has written about the supernatural as a literary theme in the fiction of England and the United States. The present book grew from research completed at the University of Leeds.

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