Elizabethan Demonology

This is not a book on demonology, this is a book on Shakespeare's use of religion and superstition.......more

Reading this book was a somewhat strange feeling for me personally.  The author wrote this essay of about 150 pages as a way of seeking to educating his audience in the beliefs that the Elizabethan era and Jacobean era had about demons.  Part of the author's point is to encourage the reader to recog......more

This book is a great analysis of the English mythos of demons and other evil beings. The author used many literary examples to show how people in Elizabethan England viewed these evil beings and how their views evolved over time. Most of these examples were from Shakespeare, which is great since it......more

Parts of this were very interesting - especially that which compared the differences between Catholic and Protestant beliefs about ghosts, demons and possession. However, there was also an oddly disproportionate focus on Shakespeare's plays which brought the rating down a little. Nothing against Sha......more