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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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ISBN978-1-107-03632-1
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