Download PDF by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath: Theatre, Magic and Philosophy: William Shakespeare, John Dee

Analyzing Shakespeare's perspectives on theatre and magic and John Dee's issues with philosophy and magic within the gentle of the Italian model of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this e-book bargains a brand new point of view at the Italian-English cultural discussion on the Renaissance and its contribution to highbrow heritage. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural process, it investigates the structural commonalities of theatre and magic as contiguous to the foundational ideas of perennial philosophy, and explores the concept the Italian thinkers educated not just typical philosophy and experimentation in England, but additionally Shakespeare's theatre. the 1st complete size undertaking to think about Shakespeare and John Dee in juxtaposition, this learn brings textual and contextual facts that Gonzalo, a good outdated Counsellor within the Tempest, is a believable theatrical illustration of John Dee. while, it areas John Dee within the culture of the philosophia perennis-accounting for what seems to be to the fashionable pupil the conflicting nature of his religion and his clinical brain, his robust fable and his desire for order and rigor-and clarifies Edward Kelly's function and artistic participation within the scrying classes, concerning him as co-author of the dramatic episodes said in Dee's non secular diaries. ultimately, it connects the Enochian/Angelic language to the parable of the Adamic language on the middle of Italian philosophy and brings facts that the Enochian is a man-made language originated through utilising creatively the analytical tools of textual content hermeneutics utilized in the Cabala.