Enchanted Shows

Vision and Structure in Elizabethan and Shakespearean Comedy about Magic

Elissa Hare (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-23495-6 (ISBN)

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The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention. The author also explores the ways in which playwrights justify structural discontinuity by the working of magic. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

Elissa Hare

Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Fabric of This Vision: Magic Illusion, Time, and Space 2. "More than Magic Can Perform": Greene and Peele 3. Over-reaching Fantasies: Marlovian Magic 4. Anticipating the Promised End: Magical Discontinuity in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 5. Shakespeare’s Dissolving Magic: ‘The Tempest’; Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-23495-8 / 1138234958
ISBN-13	978-1-138-23495-6 / 9781138234956
Zustand	Neuware