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