The magician Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". A true Renaissance "magus"?

by Juliane Stratz and Juliane Strätz

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In Renaissance, the magus, the adept of natural magic, was considered a powerful man. He was not only aware of natural, mystical and magical phenomena but also of the "innate ideas within the mens", which is the "intuitive, suprarational faculty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3656725624
• ISBN13: 9783656725626
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"