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Hardcover Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama Book

ISBN: 0820704245

ISBN13: 9780820704241

Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama

(Part of the Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies Series)

The prevalent worldview of early modern England, clearly shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent in Catholicism. That same Protestantism encouraged a strong sense of individualism, with its emphasis on self-transformation, through which a new masculinity found expression. Why, then, did magical self-empowerment retain such a hold on the artistic and cultural imagination of early modern English society?...

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