Enchantment and Dis-Enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural

by Nick Davis

Book Overview

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted' practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138184667
• ISBN13: 9781138184664
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"