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Author Dragnea, Gabriela, author

Title Theatre, magic and philosophy : William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian legacy / by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
Published New York : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Series Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies ; 17
Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series ; 17.
Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.
Contents Chapter Introduction -- part PART I Conceptual framework and historical insights -- chapter 1 Perennial philosophy -- chapter 2 The theatre and the world -- chapter 3 Magic -- chapter 4 Common features in an interface with religion -- part PART II God, man, nature and the arts -- chapter 5 Worlds in motion and the domain of nature -- chapter 6 What a piece of work is man! -- chapter 7 Art as imitatio Dei -- part PART III The sense of wonder -- chapter 8 Wonders and cultures -- chapter 9 A poetics of wonder -- chapter 10 The marvelous in theatre -- chapter 11 Dr Dee as wonder master -- chapter 12 The charmed magician -- part PART IV Vision and spirits -- chapter 13 Visual turbulence -- chapter 14 Vis imaginativa and unsettled fancy -- chapter 15 Spiritual beings -- chapter 16 The spirits and the mind -- part PART V The power of words -- chapter 17 Renaissance, reformation and languages of power -- chapter 18 Lingua et vox angelica -- chapter 19 What's in a name?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge
Dee, John, 1527-1608 -- Knowledge -- Italy
SUBJECT Dee, John, 1527-1608 fast
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject English drama -- Italian influences
Magic in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization -- Influence
English drama -- Italian influences
Magic in literature
Philosophy in literature
SUBJECT Italy -- Civilization -- Influence
Subject Italy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134767717
1134767714