Magic and Gender in Early Modern England: Renaissance Drama - Couverture souple

Ahmed, Dr. Shokhan Rasool

 
9781496990495: Magic and Gender in Early Modern England: Renaissance Drama
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1496990498 ISBN 13 : 9781496990495
Editeur : AuthorHouseUK, 2014

Synopsis

Magic and Gender in Early Modern England surveys the history of male and female magic in early modern England and the factors that influenced what writers include in their work regarding magic and witchcraft. The book includes the following: -Three chapters that focus on how Renaissance drama deals with contemporary issues of witchcraft and how witchcraft was used as an element to explore ideas of power and gender in early modern England -Key secondary readings by influential critics -Selected sources and analogues for Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Thomas Middleton's The Witch, and The Witch of Edmonton by John Ford, Thomas Dekker, and William Rowley

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Magic and Gender in Early Modern England surveys the history of male and female magic in early modern England and the factors that influenced what writers include in their work regarding magic and witchcraft. The book includes the following: -Three chapters that focus on how Renaissance drama deals with contemporary issues of witchcraft and how witchcraft was used as an element to explore ideas of power and gender in early modern England -Key secondary readings by influential critics -Selected sources and analogues for Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Thomas Middleton's The Witch, and The Witch of Edmonton by John Ford, Thomas Dekker, and William Rowley

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Shokhan Rasool Ahmed received her BA degree in English language and literature at the University of Sulaimani (2006), her MA degree in English literature, place, and identity at the University of Exeter (2009), and her PhD degree in early modern English drama at the University of Leicester (2014). She is now teaching English drama and novel in the English Department of the University of Sulaimani. She has recently written some articles on Jacobean witches on stage and has been working on her coming book.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouseUK
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496990498
ISBN 13 
9781496990495
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
100
Coordonnées du fabricant
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