Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare /

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's Montaigne : maps and books in The Tempest /…”
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The Play of Paradox : Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England / by Crockett, Bryan

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Shakespeare the renaissance humanist : moral philosophy and his plays / by Raspa, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare, the Critics, and Humanism -- Metaphysics as the Way Things Are: King John and Hamlet -- The Wisdom of King Lear -- Macbeth's Imagination as Fatal Flaw -- Beauty and Misfortune in Romeo and Juliet -- Of Animals and Men: The Tempest.…”

Shakespeare & the outer mystery / by West, Robert Hunter

Table of Contents: “…The questions -- The evidence -- Outerness & the supernatural -- King Hamlet's ambiguous ghost --Night's black agents in "Macbeth" -- Ceremonial magic in "The Tempest" -- Iago & the mytery of iniquity -- Othello and damnation -- The Christianness of "Othello" & "King Lear" -- Sex, death & pessimism in "King Lear" -- In the great hand of God.…”
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Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England : spaces of demonism, divinity, and drama / by Poole, Kristen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Prologue: Setting -- and unsettling -- the stage; Introduction: The space of the supernatural; Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest.…”
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare : imagination in the age of early modern science / by Roychoudhury, Suparna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance -- Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets -- Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost -- Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy" -- Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics -- Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth -- Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest -- Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.…”
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Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England : spaces of demonism, divinity, and drama / by Poole, Kristen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Prologue: Setting -- and unsettling -- the stage; Introduction: The space of the supernatural; Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest.…”
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Shakespeare and the idea of Western civilization / by Young, R. V., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Learning from Shakespeare, poet of Western civilization -- Shakespeare on love (and marriage) -- Juliet's nominalism and the failure of love -- The racial "other" in The merchant of Venice and Othello -- Shakespeare's history plays and the Erasmian Christian prince -- Freedom and tyranny in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- "Light thickens" : freedom and tyranny in Macbeth -- Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law -- The tempest in the academic teapot.…”
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Wanton words : rhetoric and sexuality in English Renaissance drama / by Menon, Madhavi

Table of Contents: “…Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest -- After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y…”
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The Production of English Renaissance culture /

Table of Contents: “…Loewenstein -- Bestial buggery in A midsummer night's dream / Bruce Thomas Boehrer -- News from the New World, miscegenous romance in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and The widow Ranter/ Margaret Ferguson -- Dead man's treasure, the cult of Thomas More / Clark Hulse -- Treasures of culture, Titus Andronicus and death by hanging / Francis Barker -- The picture of nobody, white cannibalism in The tempest / Richard Halpern -- Allegory, materialism, violence / Gordon Teskey.…”
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Secret Shakespeare : studies in theatre, religion and resistance / by Wilson, Richard, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Wrapped in a player's hide : Shakespeare's secret history -- Ghostly fathers : Shakeshafte and the Jesuits -- Secrets as a dumb man : two comedies of Italy and the genesis of secrecy -- No news but the old news : Shakespeare and the tragedy of Arden -- A bloody question : the politics of Venus and Adonis -- Love in idleness : the stripping of the altars in A midsummer night's dream -- Dyed in mummy : Othello and the mulberries -- The pilot's thumb : Macbeth and the martyrs -- Voyage to Tunis : new history and the old world of The tempest -- Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio -- The statue of our queen : Shakespeare's open secret -- A winter's tale : King Lear in the Pennines.…”
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Shakespeare's theory of drama / by Kiernan, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…The Rape of Lucrece, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest -- 5. 'O'er-wrested seeming': dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis. …”
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Shakespeare after theory / by Kastan, David Scott

Table of Contents: “…-- Macbeth and the "name of king" -- "The Duke of Milan / and his brave son" : old histories and new in The tempest -- Coda : the closing of the theaters -- "Publike sports" and "publike calamities" : plays, playing, and politics.…”
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The art of law in Shakespeare / by Raffield, Paul

Table of Contents: “…The Nationalist Ends of Myth -- 5. The Tempest: The Island of Law in Jacobean England -- I. …”
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Renaissance personhood : materiality, taxonomy, process /

Table of Contents: “…Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey -- Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping -- 8. …”
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Renaissance personhood : materiality, taxonomy, process /

Table of Contents: “…Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey -- Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping -- 8. …”
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Shakespeare reproduced : the text in history and ideology /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Political Criticism of Shakespeare; 2 Power, Politics, and the Shakespearean text: Recent Criticism in England and the United States; 3 Theatre of the Empire: ""Shakespeare's England"" at Earl's Court, 1912; 4 Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as Colonialist text and Pretext; 5 The Order of the Garter, the Cult of Elizabeth, and Class-Gender Tension in The Merry Wives of Windsor; 6 ""And Wash the Ethiop White"": Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello.…”
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