“If no Divells, no God” : devils, d(a)emons and humankind on the mediaeval and Early Modern English stage

This thesis looks at the relationship that humanity has with the devil, the demonic, and the daemonic as it is represented in plays from the mediaeval to the Early Modern period in England. While critics have contradictorily seen the devil as a secular figure on the one hand, and as a vestige of sac...

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Main Author: Bock, Emmanuel
Published: Durham University 2010
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533418