Afterlives of Endor

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"This book examines the ways plays and poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe address anxieties about witchcraft, illusion, and theatricality in light of legal and theological approaches to witchcraft trials in the early modern period, and it explores what factors determined whether demonologists imagined trial as theater through analyses of manuals and pamphlets about the prosecution of witches"--