{"product_id":"afterlives-of-endor-witchcraft-theatricality-and-uncertainty-from-the-malleus-maleficarum-to-shakespeare-9781501772184","title":"Afterlives of Endor: Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the Malleus Maleficarum to Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterlives of Endor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality.\u003c\/b\u003e What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions of witchcraft did these choices reveal? Pairing readings of demonological texts with canonical plays and poetry, Laura Levine examines such questions. Through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches--including Reginald Scot's skeptical \u003ci\u003eThe Discoverie of Witchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e (1584), King James VI\/I's\u003ci\u003e Daemonologie \u003c\/i\u003e(1597), and Jean Bodin's\u003ci\u003e De la Demonomanie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003edes Sorciers (1580)--Afterlives of Endor\u003c\/i\u003e examines the way literary texts such as Shakespeare's\u003ci\u003e The Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e, and Marlowe's\u003ci\u003e Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus \u003c\/i\u003eaddress anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality. \u003ci\u003eAfterlives of Endor\u003c\/i\u003e attends to the rhetorical tactics, argumentative investments, and underlying tensions of demonological texts with the scrutiny ordinarily reserved for literary texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Levine is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMen in Women's Clothing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526006051090,"sku":"9781501772184","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_241b2589-95ba-4ada-b256-9387ec27c627.jpg?v=1731254760","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/afterlives-of-endor-witchcraft-theatricality-and-uncertainty-from-the-malleus-maleficarum-to-shakespeare-9781501772184","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}