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    Shakespeare and the Supernatural
    Shakespeare and the Supernatural
    Shakespeare and the Supernatural
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    Shakespeare and the Supernatural

    By Margaret Lucy

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMar 6, 2013
    ISBN9781447489535
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      Shakespeare and the Supernatural - Margaret Lucy

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      ‘MACBETH’

      Elizabethan belief in Witchcraft; Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, Dr. John Dee, the Queen’s Astrologer. Power of the Witches over the Element and the Waxen Figure. Fate of the Witches. Shakespeare’s Witchlore pure symbolism.

      ‘Pardon, gentles all,

      The flat unraised spirit that hath dar’d

       . . . . . to bring forth

      So great an object.’

      King Henry V.

      ‘What . . . .

      I did not well I meant well.’

      Winter’s Tale.

      ‘All these things here collected are not mine;

       But divers grapes make but one kind of wine;

       So I from many authors took

       The . . . matter written in this book;

       What’s not mine own shall not by me be father’d

       For the most part I in many years have gather’d.’

      Taylor, the Water-Poet.

      TO commence with the beautiful words of Carlyle:—

      ‘The day of magic has gone by; Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of Parliament. But the mysterious relations which it emblemed still continue; the Soul of man still fights with the dark influences of Ignorance, Misery and Sin . . . still follows false shows, seeking peace and good on paths where no peace or good is to be found.’

      The popular belief in witchcraft is often alluded to by Shakespeare: the religious and dramatic literature of the day being full of it. Mr. Williams, in his ‘Superstitions of Witchcraft’ writes:—‘What the vulgar superstition must have been may easily be conceived when men of the greatest genius or learning credited the possibilities, and not only the theoretical but possible occurrence, of these infernal phenomena.’

      Thus Sir Francis Bacon was ‘not able to get rid of the principles upon which the creed was based,’ and Sir Edward Coke, his contemporary, the most acute lawyer of the age, ventured even to define the devil’s agents in witchcraft.

      When equally learned men

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