Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stage
Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42035764*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Secret sympathies
- Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's well that ends well
- Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A warning for fair women
- "As secret as maidenhead": magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth night
- Tragic antipathies in the changeling
- "To think there's power in potions": Experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi.
