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.