Enchanted Shows: Vision and Structure in Elizabethan and Shakespearean Comedy about Magic

ISBN-13: 9781138234956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 212 str.

Elissa Hare

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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.

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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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Elissa Hare