| Description |
1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Prologue: Setting -- and unsettling -- the stage; Introduction: The space of the supernatural; Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest |
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Epilogue: Re-enchanting geographyNotes to the text; Index |
| Summary |
Through detailed discussion of plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, Poole explores the supernatural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-277) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Space in literature.
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Supernatural in literature.
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Supernatural -- History -- 16th century.
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Supernatural -- History -- 17th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511977298 (electronic bk.) |
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1139092197 |
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1139093215 (electronic bk.) |
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1283316285 |
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9780511977299 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139092197 |
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9781139093217 (electronic bk.) |
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9781283316286 |
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