Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stageMary Floyd-Wilson.

Floyd-Wilson, Mary.

Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stageMary Floyd-Wilson. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Secret sympathies -- Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's well that ends well -- Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A warning for fair women -- "As secret as maidenhead": magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth night -- Tragic antipathies in the changeling -- "To think there's power in potions": Experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi.



9781461934103


Occultism in literature.
Literature and spiritualism.
Women in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR2965 / .O238 2013