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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage (Paperback)
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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the
debate about the cultural work performed by representations of
magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in
which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of
national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its
recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic
can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is
staged and what the representational strategies and techniques
might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical
plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, The Merry Wives of
Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less
canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio,
The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late
Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two
groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in
which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or
accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational
strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well
as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal
the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary
debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect
transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of
all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of
magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation
applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic,
but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about
change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and
stereotypes.
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