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Author:   Michael Mangan
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Volume:   v. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9781841501499

ISBN 10:   1841501492
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 August 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 'Binaries: early attitudes to conjuring' - Page 1 - Michael Mangan Chapter 2: '""The evil Spirit has a hand in the Tricks of these Jugglers"": conjuring and Christian orthodoxy' - Page 19 - Michael Mangan Chapter 3: '""Fire and faggot to burn the witch?"" Conjuring between belief and unbelief in early modern England' - Page 31 - Michael Mangan Chapter 4: 'On the margins: criminals and fraudsters' - Page 62 - Michael Mangan Chapter 5: 'On the boundaries of the human' - Page 76 - Michael Mangan Chapter 6: 'Acting and not-acting: Robert-Houdin' - Page 97 - Michael Mangan Chapter 7: 'Before your very eyes: life, death and liveness' - Page 116 - Michael Mangan Chapter 8: 'Narrative ambiguity and contested meanings: interpreting Harry Houdini' - Page 140 - Michael Mangan Chapter 9: 'Mediums and the media' - Page 162 - Michael Mangan Chapter 10: 'Magic, media and postmodernism' - Page 172 - Michael Mangan

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Performing Dark Arts is part of the Theatre and Consciousness series (series editor: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe). 'This is an erudite book which wears its scholarship lightly and is a pleasure to read. Complex theoretical frameworks are introduced in ways that will make them accessible to the general reader, and the book's argument opens up new implications and applications for the study of magic as performance...' (Roberta Mock, University of Plymouth)

Author Information

Michael Mangan holds the Chair in Drama at Exeter University. His main research interests lie in the broad area of theatre and society: more specifically, he has published books, articles and papers on the subjects of: theatre and gender, Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, the cultural history of popular performance, and contemporary British theatre. He has also worked as a playwright, a director, a literary manager, a dramaturg and an actor.

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