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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage (Hardcover, New)
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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage (Hardcover, New)
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In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson argues that the
early modern English believed their affections and behavior were
influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies that coursed
through the natural world. These forces not only produced emotional
relationships but they were also levers by which ordinary people
supposed they could manipulate nature and produce new knowledge.
Indeed, it was the invisibility of nature's secrets or occult
qualities that led to a privileging of experimentation, helping to
displace a reliance on ancient theories. Floyd-Wilson demonstrates
how Renaissance drama participates in natural philosophy's
production of epistemological boundaries by staging stories that
assess the knowledge-making authority of women healers and
experimenters. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A
Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling,
and The Duchess of Malfi, Floyd-Wilson suggests that as
experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed
intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized."
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