This examination of early modern stage magic overviews its occurrence in the earliest type of mixed-gender professional theater, the Italian commedia dell’arte, discusses necromancers and stage magicians, and concludes by inquiring into the significance of magical impotence superstitions for the London stage. Drawing on travel journals and medical treatises as well as more familiar sources, it confirms that ‘travelers’ tales’ can represent an invaluable documentary resource for the theater historian even when, as with the Swiss physician Thomas Platter’s account of the ritual practice of magical impotence in southwestern France, their connection to the stage is indirect and previously unrecognized. Creative early modern London playwrights d...
"The Devil in the Detail" explores the rationality of magical belief on the early modern English sta...
Zan Bragetta and Jean Potage: performing traders touring early modern Europe. Many early modern prof...
This paper treats of early modern alchemy and theatricality. I focus on the theatrical characteristi...
This volume considers transnational and intercultural aspects of theatre, drama and performance in t...
This volume considers transnational and intercultural aspects of theatre, drama and performance in t...
This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Re...
The searches for the cultural spaces of early modern European beliefs in the supernatural have follo...
From the records, we know that English players were active in many parts of Europe for almost a cent...
On a London stage in 1733, Zoroastro transforms a forest into a horrible cave. He performs this magi...
Magical impotence, the witchcraft crime on which that infamous witch-hunting tool of the inquisition...
Although scholarly interest in available “alternatives” to early modern London theater has recently ...
About the book: Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early m...
My dissertation interrogates the a priori narrative of decline that informs the study of early moder...
This thesis investigates witchcraft during the reign of King James VI and I when belief in witchcraf...
Simultaneous with the European witch craze, early modern scholars began to collect the superstitious...
"The Devil in the Detail" explores the rationality of magical belief on the early modern English sta...
Zan Bragetta and Jean Potage: performing traders touring early modern Europe. Many early modern prof...
This paper treats of early modern alchemy and theatricality. I focus on the theatrical characteristi...
This volume considers transnational and intercultural aspects of theatre, drama and performance in t...
This volume considers transnational and intercultural aspects of theatre, drama and performance in t...
This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Re...
The searches for the cultural spaces of early modern European beliefs in the supernatural have follo...
From the records, we know that English players were active in many parts of Europe for almost a cent...
On a London stage in 1733, Zoroastro transforms a forest into a horrible cave. He performs this magi...
Magical impotence, the witchcraft crime on which that infamous witch-hunting tool of the inquisition...
Although scholarly interest in available “alternatives” to early modern London theater has recently ...
About the book: Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early m...
My dissertation interrogates the a priori narrative of decline that informs the study of early moder...
This thesis investigates witchcraft during the reign of King James VI and I when belief in witchcraf...
Simultaneous with the European witch craze, early modern scholars began to collect the superstitious...
"The Devil in the Detail" explores the rationality of magical belief on the early modern English sta...
Zan Bragetta and Jean Potage: performing traders touring early modern Europe. Many early modern prof...
This paper treats of early modern alchemy and theatricality. I focus on the theatrical characteristi...