Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England
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Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

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Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Note on the text
  7. Prologue: Setting – and unsettling – the stage
  8. Introduction: The space of the supernatural
  9. Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus
  10. Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural
  11. Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography
  12. Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth
  13. Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest
  14. Epilogue: Re-enchanting geography
  15. Notes to the text
  16. Index