Occult Knowledge Science and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage by Mary Floyd-Wilson (2013).pdf

OCCULTKNOWLEDGE,SCIENCE,AND

GENDERONTHESHAKESPEAREANSTAGE

Beliefinspirits,demons,andtheoccultwascommonplaceintheearly

modernperiod,aswastheviewthattheseforcescouldbeusedto

manipulatenatureandproducenewknowledge.Inthisground-

breakingstudy,MaryFloyd-Wilsonexploresthesebeliefsinrelation

towomenandscienti cknowledge,arguingthattheearlymodern

Englishunderstoodtheiremotionsandbehaviortobein uencedby

hiddensympathiesandantipathiesinthenaturalworld.Focusing

onTwelfthNight,ArdenofFaversham,AWarningforFairWomen,

All ’ sWellThatEndsWell,TheChangeling,andTheDuchessofMal ,

shedemonstrateshowtheseplaysstagequestionsaboutwhether

womenhaveprivilegedaccesstonature’ssecretsandwhethertheir

bodiespossesshiddenoccultqualities.Discussingtherelationship

betweenscienti cdiscourseandtheoccult,shegoesontoargue

that,asexperientialevidencegainedscienti cground,women’spre-

sumedintimacywithnature’ssecretswaseitherdiminishedor

demonized.

MARYFLOYD-WILSONisAssociateProfessorofEnglishand

ComparativeLiteratureattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaat

ChapelHill.ArecipientofaNationalHumanitiesCenter

Fellowship,sheistheauthorofEnglishEthnicityandRacein

EarlyModernDrama(2003)andtheco-editorofReadingtheEarly

ModernPassions:ACulturalHistoryofEmotions(withGailKernPaster

andKatherineRowe,2004)andEmbodimentandEnvironmentin

EarlyModernEngland(withGarrettA.Sullivan,Jr.,2007).Shehas

publishedarticles inShakespeareQuarterly,EnglishLiterary

Renaissance,EarlyModernLiteraryStudies,andShakespeareStudies,

andhasco-editedaspecialissueofRenaissanceDrama.

FrontispieceTitlepagewoodcut,Dehumanicorporisfabricalibrorumepitome(Basel,1543),

WellcomeLibrary,London

OCCULTKNOWLEDGE,

SCIENCE,ANDGENDERON

THESHAKESPEAREANSTAGE

MARYFLOYD-WILSON

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