ENGL31072 / 61072: WRITING THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE AGE OF
SHAKESPEARE (2013-14)
A PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary Texts
The set pamphlet texts will all be available in the free course handbook (electronically also on Blackboard). If you want to read some of them, though, before the course begins, most can only be accessed through EEBO (Early English Books Online) which can be accessed through the library databases. You will need to buy the play-texts (marked with an asterisk below).
Monsters
Anon., The true descripcion of a childe with ruffes borne in the parish of Micheham
(1566)
Anon., The forme and shape of a monstrous child, born at Maidstone in Kent (1568)
Thomas Locke, A strange and lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby (1642)
Anon., A declaration of a strange and wonderfull monster (1646)
Anon., The Ranters Monster (1652)
Anon., The strange monster (1668)
Anon., A true relation of a monstrous female-child (1680)
Ghosts
Anon., Sad and wonderful newes from the faulcon at the bank side (1661)
Anon., A strange and wonderfull discovery of a horrid and cruel murther committed
fourteen yeares since upon the body of Robert Elliot (1662)
Anon., A true relation of the horrid ghost of a woman (1673)
Anon., Great news from Middle-Row in Holbourn (1680)
Anon., The mournfull widow (1690)
*William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Witches
Anon., The Examination and Confession of certain Wytches (1566)
Anon., A rehearsal both straung and true (1579)
Anon., The wonderful discovery of the witchcrafts of Margaret and Philip Flower
(1619)
Henry Goodcole, The wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch (1621)
*William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton (written
c.1621; published 1658)
*William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Demonic possession
Anon., Most fearfull and strange newes from the bishopricke of Durham (1641)
Anon., A return of prayer: or A faithful relation of some remarkable passages of
providence concerning Thomas Sawdie (1664)
Anon., The Hartford-shire Wonder: or, Strange News from Ware (1669)
Anon., Strange and wonderful news from Yowel in Surrey (1681)
Richard Kirby, Dreadful news from Wapping; being a further relation of the sad and
miserable condition of Sarah Bower (1693)
Magic and magicians
*Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Fairies
Moses Pitt, An account of one Ann Jefferies (1696)
*William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Criticism and context
Fuller bibliographies will be available week by week, but here is a guide to getting started. You will not want to read everything here! Pick what is most appropriate for your interests and your chosen essay topic. You will probably want to get the books from the library rather than buying them. Don't forget also to check out the fuller, week by week bibliographies.
History, culture, society
Susan Brigden, New Worlds, Lost Worlds: the Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (2000)
David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and
Stuart England (1980)
Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (2000)
Mark Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 (1996)
Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: a People's History (2006)
James A. Sharpe, Early Modern England: a Social History, 1550-1760 (1987)
Keith Wrightson, English Society, 1580-1680 (1982)
Gender
Mark Breitenberg, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England (1996)
Amanda Capern, The Historical Study of Women: England, 1500-1700 (2008)
Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500 -1800 (1995)
Ann Hughes, Gender and the English Revolution (Routledge, 2012)
Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England (1998)
Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: the Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England
(1996)
Diane Purkiss, Literature, Gender and Politics during the English Civil War (2005)
Alexandra Shepard, Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (2003).
Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (1977)
Religion and the supernatural
Andrew Bradstock, Radical Religion in Cromwell's England (2011)
Patrick Collinson, The Reformation (2003)
Frances Dolan, Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth-century
Print Culture (2nd ed,, 2005)
Christopher Haigh, The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in
Post-Reformation England (2007)
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1972)
Peter Marshall, Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England (2002)
Francis Young, English Catholics and the Supernatural,1553-1829 (2013)
Cheap print
Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (2003)
Alexandra Halasz, The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in
Early Modern England (1997)
Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (2003)
Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (1996)
Narrating the supernatural
Frances Dolan, True Relations: Reading, Literature and Evidence in Seventeenth-
century England (2013)
Jerome Friedman, Miracles and the Pulp Press during the English Revolution: the
Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies (UCL Press, 1993)
Marion Gibson, 'Understanding Witchcraft? Accusers' Stories in Print in Early
Modern England' (Stuart Clark ed., Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative,
Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture, 2001, pp. 41-54.)
Louise Jackson, 'Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women's
Confessions in Seventeenth-century England' (Women' History Review 4
1995), pp. 63-84.
Jacqueline Pearson, '"Then she asked it, what were its Sisters names?": Reading
between the lines in seventeenth-century pamphlets of the supernatural'
(Seventeenth Century 28, 2013, pp. 63-78).
The supernatural : general
Euan Cameron, Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason and Religion 1200-1750
(2010)
Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
(1997)
David Cressy, Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and
Stuart England (2001).
Lorraine Daston, 'Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Europe'
(Critical Inquiry 18, 1991), pp. 93-124.
Ryan Curtis Friesen, Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture
(2010)
Nathan Johnstone, The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England (2006)
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart ed., The Occult in Early Modern Europe: a Documentary
History (1999)
Darren Oldridge, Strange Histories: the trial of the pig, the walking dead, and other
matters of fact from the mediaeval and Renaissance worlds (2005)
Darren Oldridge, The Devil in Early Modern England (2000).
Kristen Poole, Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England: Spaces of
Demonism, Divinity, and Drama (2011)
Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)
Frederick Valletta, Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70 (2000).
Alexandra Walsham, 'The Reformation and "the Disenchantment of the World"
Reassessed' (The Historical Journal 51, 2008, pp. 497-528).
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5, trans. Talcott
Parsons, 1930)
The supernatural on stage
Roberta Barker, '"An honest dog yet": Performing The Witch of Edmonton' (Early
Theatre 12, 2009), pp. 163-182.
Ryan Curtis Friesen, Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture
(2010)
Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (2001)
Anthony Harris, Night's Black Agents: Witchcraft and Magic in 17th-century English
drama (1980)
Laura Kolb, 'Playing with Demons: interrogating the supernatural in Jacobean drama'
(Forum for Modern Language Studies 43, 2007), pp. 337-50
Ian McAdam, Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama (2009)
Kristen Poole, Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England: Spaces of
Demonism, Divinity, and Drama (2011)
Verna Theile and Andrew D. McCarthy eds., Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern
Europe (2013)
Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in
English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642 (2007)
Stanley Wells, 'Staging Shakespeare's Ghosts' (Murray Biggs et al. eds., The Arts of
Performance in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama: Essays for G. K.
Hunter, 1991), pp. 50-69.
Portents, prodigies and providence
William E. Burns, An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England
1657-1727 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002)
William E. Burns, 'Signs of the Times: Thomas Jackson and the Controversy over
Prodigies in the Reign of Charles I' (Seventeenth Century 11, 1996, pp. 21-33)
Christopher Durston, 'Signs and Wonders and the English Civil War' (History Today
37,1987, pp. 22-8)
Jerome Friedman, Miracles and the Pulp Press during the English Revolution: the
Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies (UCL Press, 1993)
Anne Dunan Page, 'Le châtiment de Dorothy Mately: mise en livre des histories de
jugement à la Restauration' (Bulletin de la Société d'études anglo-américaines
des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 50, 2000), pp. 31-49.
Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 1999).
Blair Worden, 'Providence and Politics in Cromwellian England' (Past and Present
109, 1985), pp. 55-99.
Monstrous births
Alan W. Bates, Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births
in Early Modern Europe (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2005).
Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early
modern culture (2002), esp. chapter 1.
Julie Crawford, Marvelous Protestantism: monstrous births in post-Reformation
England (2005)
David Cressy, Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and
Stuart England (2001; originally, as Travesties and transgressions in Tudor
and Stuart England, 2000),
David Cressy, 'Lamentable, strange and wonderful: headless monsters in the English
revolution' (Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes eds., Monstrous
Bodies / Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe, 2004), pp. 40-63.
Ghosts
Jo Bath and John Newton, '"Sensible proof of spirits": ghost belief during the later
seventeenth century' (Folklore 117, 2006), pp. 1-14.
Todd Butler, 'The Haunting of Isabell Binnington: Ghosts of Murder, Texts and Law
in Restoration England' (Journal of British Studies 50, 2011, pp. 248-76)
Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (2001)
Sasha Handley, Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in
Eighteenth-century England (2007)
Peter Marshall, Mother Leakey and the Bishop: a Ghost Story (2007)
John Newton and Jo Bath eds., Early Modern Ghosts (2002)
Witches
Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
(1997)
Stuart Clark ed., Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early
Modern Culture (2001)
Marion Gibson, Reading Witchcraft (1999)
Alan Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England (1970)
Darren Oldridge eds., The Witchcraft Reader (second ed., 2008)
Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and 20th-century Representations
(1996)
Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early
modern Europe (1994)
James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England 1550-1750 (1996)
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions
in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (2005)
Deborah Willis, Malevolent Nurture: Witch-hunting and maternal power in early
modern England (1995)
The devil and demonic possession
Philip C. Almond, Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England:
Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts (2004)
Andrew Cambers, 'Demonic Possession, Literacy and 'Superstition' in Early Modern
England' (Past and Present 202, 2009), pp. 3-35.
Nathan Johnstone, The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England (2006)
Brian P. Levack, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (Yale UP,
New Haven, 2013)
Darren Oldridge, The Devil in Early Modern England (2000).
Kathleen R. Sands, Demon Possession in Elizabethan England (2004)
James Sharpe, 'Disruption in the Well-Ordered Household: Age, Authority, and
Possessed Young People' (Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox and Steve Hindle eds.,
The experience of authority in early modern England, 1996)
Magic
Philip Butterworth, Magic on the Early English Stage (2005)
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Wizards: a History (2004)
Ian McAdam, Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama (2009)
John S. Mebane, Renaissance magic and the return of the golden age: the occult
tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare (1989)
Kristen Poole, Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England: Spaces of
Demonism, Divinity, and Drama (2011)
Wayne Shumaker, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: a Study in Intellectual
Patterns (1972)
Fairies
K. M. Briggs, The Fairies in tradition and literature (1967)
K. M. Briggs, The anatomy of Puck: an examination of fairy beliefs among
Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors (1959)
Roger Lancelyn Green, 'Shakespeare and the Fairies' (Folklore 73, 1962), pp. 89-103.
Mary Ellen Lamb, 'Taken by the fairies: fairy practices and the production of popular
culture in A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Shakespeare Quarterly 51, 2000),
pp.277-312.
Diane Purkiss, Troublesome things: a history of fairies and fairy stories (2001)
Wendy Wall, 'Why does Puck sweep? Fairylore, Merry Wives, and Social Struggle'
(Shakespeare Quarterly 52, 2001), pp. 67-106.
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