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100 1 _aPudney, Eric.
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245 1 0 _aScepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538-1681.
264 1 _aLund :
_bLund University Press,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (360 pages)
336 _atext
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520 _aThis book situates witchcraft drama within its cultural and intellectual context, highlighting the centrality of scepticism and belief in witchcraft to the genre. It is argued that these categories are most fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the debate around witchcraft, but as rhetorical tools used within it. In drama, too, scepticism and belief are vital issues. The psychology of the witch character is characterised by a combination of impious scepticism towards God and credulous belief in the tricks of the witch's master, the devil. Plays which present plausible depictions of witches typically use scepticism as a support: the witch's power is subject to important limitations which make it easier to believe. Plays that take witchcraft less seriously present witches with unrestrained power, an excess of belief which ultimately induces scepticism. But scepticism towards witchcraft can become a veneer of rationality concealing other beliefs that pass without sceptical examination. The theatrical representation of witchcraft powerfully demonstrates its uncertain status as a historical and intellectual phenomenon; belief and scepticism in witchcraft drama are always found together, in creative tension with one another.
546 _aEnglish.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
506 0 _aOpen Access
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650 0 _aEnglish drama
_yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 _aWitchcraft in literature.
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650 0 _aWitches in literature.
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650 0 _aBelief and doubt in literature.
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650 0 _aEnglish drama
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650 7 _aLiterary studies: plays & playwrights.
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650 7 _aEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
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650 7 _aLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes.
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650 7 _aWitches in literature.
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650 7 _aWitchcraft in literature.
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_935649
650 7 _aEnglish drama
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650 7 _aEnglish drama.
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650 7 _aBelief and doubt in literature.
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650 7 _aLiterature
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648 7 _a1500-1699
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653 _aWitchcraft
653 _aDemonology
653 _aScepticism
653 _aBelief
653 _aMagic
653 _aThe Witch of Edmonton
653 _aThe Late Lancashire Witches
653 _aThe Lancashire Witches
653 _aMacbeth
653 _aDr Faustus
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aPudney, Eric.
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