Tidigare utgiven av Ashgate, 2013

Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser (s.[239]-270)

Introduction: Superstitions, Literature, History, and the Creative Imagination / Verena Theile and Andrew D. McCarthy -- Part I. Early Modern Superstitions: Religion, Reformation, and the History of Fear: 1. Popular Magic, Witchcraft, and Lutheran Religious Literature / Peter A. Morton -- 2. "Let not Phantasies Misgouerne You": Entertainment as Religious Polemic (The Case of Barnabe Riche) / Adam H. Kitzes -- 3. Early Modern Literary Engagements with Fear, Witchcraft, the Devil, and that Damned Dr. Faustus / Verena Theile -- Part. 2. Witchcraft on Trial: 4. The Supernatural on the Stage: An Analysis of Early Modern Literary and Theatrical Representations of Lancashire’s Witches and Demons / Deborah Lea -- 5. Vision on Trial in The Late Lancashire Witches / Meg F. Pearson -- 6. The Joint-Stool on the Early Modern Stage: Witches, Wives, and Murderers in Macbeth and Arden of Faversham / Kristina E. Caton -- 7. The Medicalization of "Midnight Hags": Perverting Post-Menopausal and Political Motherhood in Macbeth / Hilda H. Ma -- Part. 3 Stage Dissections: 8. "Such a Sinner of His Memory": Prospero, Bruno, and the Failures of Neo-Platonic Memory Magic / Liberty Stanavage -- 9. Prophecies, Dreams, and the Plays of John Lyly / Per Sivefors -- 10. Travelers’ Tales: Magic and Superstition on Early Modern European and London Stages / M A Katritzky.