Afterlives of Endor : : Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the "Malleus Maleficarum" to Shakespeare / / Laura Levine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Levine, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way Early Modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions of witchcraft did these choices reveal? Pairing readings of demonological texts with canonical plays and poetry, Laura Levine examines such questions. Through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches—including Reginald Scot's skeptical The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) King James VI/I's Daemonologie (1597) and Jean Bodin's De laDemonomanie (1580)—Afterlives of Endor examines the way literary texts such as Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marlowe's Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality. Afterlives of Endor attends to the rhetorical tactics, argumentative investments and underlying tensions of demonological texts with the scrutiny ordinarily reserved for literary texts

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Judicial Procedure as Countermagic in Malleus Maleficarum -- Chapter 2 Broken Epistemologies: Bodin and the Repudiation of Spectacle -- Chapter 3 Our Mutual Fiend: Reginald Scot and the Exorcism of the Other -- Chapter 4 Strategies for Doubt: Curiosity and Violence in King James VI and I’s Daemonologie -- Chapter 5 Newes from Scotland and the Theaters of Evidence -- Chapter 6 Spenser’s False Shewes -- Chapter 7 Danger in Words: Faustus, Slade, and the Demonologists -- Chapter 8 Paulina and the Theater of Shame -- Epilogue: This Is and Is Not Magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index