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Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England
Kristen Poole
其他書名
Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2011-06-30
主題
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Drama / Shakespeare
ISBN
1139497650
9781139497657
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6KtUtcN-0m4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest.