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Theatre, Magic and Philosophy - William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy (Paperback)
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Theatre, Magic and Philosophy - William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
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Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's
concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian
version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della
Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective
on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its
contribution to intellectual history. In an interdisciplinary and
intercultural approach, it investigates the structural
commonalities of theatre and magic as contiguous to the
foundational concepts of perennial philosophy, and explores the
idea that the Italian thinkers informed not only natural philosophy
and experimentation in England, but also Shakespeare's theatre. The
first full length project to consider Shakespeare and John Dee in
juxtaposition, this study brings textual and contextual evidence
that Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor in The Tempest, is a
plausible theatrical representation of John Dee. At the same time,
it places John Dee in the tradition of the philosophia
perennis-accounting for what appears to the modern scholar the
conflicting nature of his faith and his scientific mind, his
powerful fantasy and his need for order and rigor-and clarifies
Edward Kelly's role and creative participation in the scrying
sessions, regarding him as co-author of the dramatic episodes
reported in Dee's spiritual diaries. Finally, it connects the
Enochian/Angelic language to the myth of the Adamic language at the
core of Italian philosophy and brings evidence that the Enochian is
an artificial language originated by applying creatively the
analytical instruments of text hermeneutics used in the Cabala.
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