
Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage
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Part I Demons and Pacts
1 Magic and the Decline of Demons: A View from the Stage Barbara H. Traister
2 Who the Devil is in Charge? Mastery and the Faustian Pact on the Early Modern Stage Bronwyn Johnston
3 Danger in Words: Faustus, Slade, and the Demonologists
Part II Rites to Believe
4 "The Charm's Wound Up": Supernatural Ritual in Macbeth Alisa Manninen
5 Demonising Macbeth Verena Theile
6 Hermetic Miracles in The Winter's Tale Jill Delsigne
Part III Learned Magic
7 "We ring this round with our invoking spells": Magic as Embedded Authorship in The Merry Devil of Edmonton Peter Kirwan
8 Boiled Brains, 'Inward Pinches', and Alchemical Tempering in The Tempest Jasmine Lellock
9 Profit and Delight? Magic and the Dreams of a Nation Lisa Hopkins
Part IV Local Witchcraft
10 Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentleman, and One English Queen Brett D. Hirsch
11 'In good reporte and honest estimacion amongst her neighbours': Cunning Women in the Star Chamber and on the Stage in Early Modern England Judith Bonzol
12 'A witch, a queen, an old cozening quean!': Image Magic and Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Jessica Dell
13 'Gingerbread Progeny' in Bartholomew Fair Helen Ostovich
14 'My poor fiddle is bewitched': Music, Magic, and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton and The Late Lancashire Witches Andrew Loeb
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