RENAISSANCE MAGIC AND THE RETURN OF THE GOLDEN AGE: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
Lincoln: University of Nebrasca Press, 1992. 327 pages. For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist) to..... More