Enchanted Shows: Vision and Structure in Elizabethan and Shakespearean Comedy about Magic (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama) - Hardcover

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Hare, Elissa

 
9781138234949: Enchanted Shows: Vision and Structure in Elizabethan and Shakespearean Comedy about Magic (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama)
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ISBN 10: 113823494X ISBN 13: 9781138234949
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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. The author also explores the ways in which playwrights justify structural discontinuity by the working of magic. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

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Elissa Hare

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113823494X
ISBN 13 
9781138234949
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
212

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