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9781107008359

Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107008359

  • ISBN10:

    1107008352

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-08-15
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue: setting - and unsettling - the stage
Introduction: the space of the supernatural
The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus
Scene at the deathbed: Ars Moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural
When hell freezes over: the fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography
Metamorphic cosmologies: the world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth
Divine geometry in a geodetic age: surveying, God, and The Tempest
Epilogue: re-enchanting geography
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