{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-supernatural-9781526109064","title":"Shakespeare and the Supernatural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from the elements. Although written and performed for early modern audiences, for whom the supernatural, whether sacred, demonic or folkloric, was part of the fabric of everyday life, the supernatural in Shakespeare continues to enthrall audiences and readers, and maintains its power to raise a range of questions in contemporary contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches, generating new knowledge and presenting hitherto unexplored avenues of enquiry across the Shakespearean canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural – Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Embodying the supernatural\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Shakespeare’s political spectres – Victoria Bladen \u003cbr\u003e2 ‘Rudely stamped’: supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e – Chelsea Phillips \u003cbr\u003e3 Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) – Anchuli Felicia King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Haunted spaces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Demons and puns: Revisiting the ‘cellarage scene’ in \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e – Pierre Kapitaniak\u003cbr\u003e5 Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival – Florence March\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Supernatural utterance and haunted texts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeare’s challenges to performativity – Yan Brailowsky\u003cbr\u003e7 Puck, Philostrate and the \u003ci\u003elocus \u003c\/i\u003eof \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream’\u003c\/i\u003es topical allegory – Laurie Johnson \u003cbr\u003e8 ‘Strange intelligence’: Transformations of witchcraft in \u003ci\u003eMacbeth \u003c\/i\u003ediscourse – William C. Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Magic, music and gender\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Music and magic in \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e: Ariel’s alchemical songs – Natalie Roulon\u003cbr\u003e10 From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen – Katharine Goodland \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Contemporary transformations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes’: representing the supernatural in film adaptations of \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e – Gayle Allan\u003cbr\u003e12 Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture – Yukari Yoshihara\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040980894039,"sku":"9781526109064","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526109064.jpg?v=1750948480","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-supernatural-9781526109064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}