Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama
David Hawkes, "Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama "
English | ISBN: 1350247049 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1350247049 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without human intervention. Magic was coming to seem Satanic, as the manipulation of magical signs to performative purposes was criminalized in the great 'witch craze.' And the commercial, public theatre was emerging – to great controversy – as the perfect medium to display, analyse and evaluate the newly autonomous power of representation in its financial, magical and aesthetic forms.
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