The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention.
The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention.
Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Fabric of This Vision: Magic Illusion, Time, and Space 2. "More than Magic Can Perform": Greene and Peele 3. Over-reaching Fantasies: Marlovian Magic 4. Anticipating the Promised End: Magical Discontinuity in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 5. Shakespeare's Dissolving Magic: 'The Tempest'; Works Cited
Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Fabric of This Vision: Magic Illusion, Time, and Space 2. "More than Magic Can Perform": Greene and Peele 3. Over-reaching Fantasies: Marlovian Magic 4. Anticipating the Promised End: Magical Discontinuity in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 5. Shakespeare's Dissolving Magic: 'The Tempest'; Works Cited
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