Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies

The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest - in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency to demonize fairy belief and to view fairies as merely a form of demonic man...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piotr Spyra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2017-10-01
Series:Text Matters
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/2239