Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

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This book visits the wondrous, magical, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, studying the instabilities of `enchanted¿ and `disenchanted¿ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world¿s ordinary functioning might be said to be `enchanted¿, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? The book asks what happens in theatre, as a medium that can give power to or curtail experiences of wonder, addressing plays that reflect contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice.