Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination; Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeares England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed; purgatory; demonic contracts and their spatial surround; Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical; geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence; this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowes Doctor Faustus and Shakespeares Othello; Hamlet; Macbeth and The Tempest.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent for scholars from a variety of disciplines and urban ...By Robert ChlalaCutting-edge analysis. Excellent for scholars from a variety of disciplines and urban practitioners alike. You can see there is a clear commitment to rigorous scholarship and to well-crafted writing among the authors of this volume. particularly the editors. Impressive and worth the read.
