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Theatre, Magic and Philosophy
Analyzing Shakespeare’s views on theatre and magic and John Dee’s
concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of
philosophia perennis
(mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and
Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English
cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual his-
tory. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, it investigates the
structural commonalities of theatre and magic as contiguous to the foun-
dational concepts of perennial philosophy, and explores the idea that the
Italian thinkers informed not only natural philosophy and experimenta-
tion in England, but also Shakespeare’s theatre. The first full length project
to consider Shakespeare and John Dee in juxtaposition, this study brings
textual and contextual evidence that Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor
in The Tempest, is a plausible theatrical representation of John Dee.
At the same time, it places John Dee in the tradition of the
philosophia
perennis—
accounting for what appears to the modern scholar the conflict-
ing nature of his faith and his scientific mind, his powerful fantasy and his
need for order and rigor—, and clarifies Edward Kelly’s role and creative
participation in the scrying sessions, regarding him as co-author of the dra-
matic episodes reported in Dee’s spiritual diaries. Finally, it connects the
Enochian/Angelic language to the myth of the Adamic language at the core
of Italian philosophy and brings evidence that the Enochian is an artificial
language originated by applying creatively the analytical instruments of
text hermeneutics used in the Cabala.
Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
teaches for the NYU Global Liberal Studies
Program in Florence and serves as general editor for the on-line publication
Voyages-Journal of Contemporary Humanism.
Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
Edited by Michele Marrapodi
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com.
9 Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama
Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage
Anthony Ellis
10 Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare’s Rome
Edited by Maria Del Sapio Garbero
11 Translating Women in Early Modern England
Gender in the Elizabethan Versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso
Selene Scarsi
12 Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
Anglo-Italian Transactions
Edited by Michele Marrapodi
13 Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy
Intertextuality on the Jacobean Stage
Michael J. Redmond
14 Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning
Edited by Michele Marrapodi
15 Shakespeare and Rome
Graham Holderness
16 Shakespeare’s Poetics
Aristotle and Anglo-Italian Renaissance Genres
Sarah Dewar-Watson
17 Theatre, Magic and Philosophy
William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy
Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
Theatre, Magic and Philosophy
William Shakespeare, John Dee
and the Italian Legacy
Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
First published 2017
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dragnea, Gabriela author.
Title: Theatre, magic and philosophy: William Shakespeare,
John Dee and the Italian legacy / by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2017. | Series: Anglo-Italian
Renaissance studies; 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017007471
Subjects: LCSH: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—
Knowledge—Italy. | Dee, John, 1527–1608—Knowledge—Italy. |
English drama—Italian influences. | Magic in literature. | Philosophy
in literature. | Italy—Civilization—Influence.
Classification: LCC PR3069.I8 D84 2017 | DDC 822.3/3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007471
ISBN: 978-1-4724-3627-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-54711-4 (ebk)
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