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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Daemonologie"”.
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… study examines the impacts of King James’ <em>Daemonologie</em> on how witches were identified, prosecuted, and executed in Scotland during the early modern period. It is an analytical look at how the intervention of King James during the North Berwick trials influenced the writing of …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… The Faerie Queene, James I’s 1597-1603 tract Daemonologie, and Shakespeare’s 1610-11 play The Tempest. The Scottish and Irish witches of these works embody an intractable, powerful racial “Otherness” that undermines the production of faithful English subjects in the larger British Isles, …
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Royal Self-Fashioning: King James VI and his Demonology
… This dissertation examines King James VI’s Daemonologie as it relates to the themes of masculinity and self-fashioning. By analysing James, through his demonological treatise, I illuminate James’s anxiety of the learned man and show his masking of that anxiety through textual self-fashioning …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… in the wake of his own book condemning magic, *Daemonologie* (1597). Plays like *The Puritan Widow* (1606) and *The Alchemist* (1610) parody the magical Solomon in response to the king’s apparent distaste for attempts to legitimize magic. Other plays, most notably Shakespeare’s *Macbeth* (1606) …