Shakespeare Harsnett and the Devils of Denham

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Shakespeare Harsnett and the Devils of Denham

Author	: Frank Walsh Brownlow
File Size	: 49,9 Mb
Publisher	: University of Delaware Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 07 May 1993
ISBN	: 0874134366
Pages	: 452 pages

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Shakespeare Harsnett and the Devils of Denham by Frank Walsh Brownlow Book PDF Summary

Part 1 of this book provides an annotated edition of Samuel Harsnett's famous attack on the practice of exorcism, which had a profound influence upon Shakespeare's conception and writing of King Lear. Part 2 explores the context of Shakespeare's reading of Harsnett's book.

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