From the early moments in Hamlet when he offers a ‘piece’ (1.1.18) of himself to his readiness to consider a range of folkloric narratives, Horatio’s approach to the supernatural is one marked by f...

Magic has served as a source of fascination for early modern scholars throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. While critics continue to debate magic's relationship to religion and science, in recent ...

Les pamphlets sur la sorcellerie et le théâtre anglais du XVIIe siècle contiennent des représentations du corps de la sorcière perçu comme le lieu de la perversion sexuelle, de l’inversion de l’ordre ...

Abstract Beginning with Iago’s insults against Cassio as both “arithmetician” (1.1.18) and “counter-caster” (1.1.30), this essay explores the deep epistemological divides that the two terms suggested ...

ABSTRACT. I argue in this article for a reconsideration of Shakespeare's play in light of the phenomena of eating mummified flesh in early modern medicinal practice. At various junctures in Julius Cae...

Early Modern Almanacs and The Witch of Edmonton

Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage

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