TAILIEUCHUNG - Elizabethan Demonology

It is impossible to understand and appreciate thoroughly the production of any great literary genius who lived and wrote in times far removed from our own, without a certain amount of familiarity, not only with the precise shades of meaning possessed by the vocabulary he made use of, as distinguished from the sense conveyed by the same words in the present day, but also with the customs and ideas, political, religious and moral, that predominated during the period in which his works were produced. Without such information, it will be found impossible, in many matters of the first importance, to grasp the writer's true intent,. | Elizabethan Demonology 1 Elizabethan Demonology The Project Gutenberg eBook Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Elizabethan Demonology Author Thomas Alfred Spalding Release Date July 12 2004 eBook 12890 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELIZABETHAN DEMONOLOGY E-text prepared by Imran Ghory Stan Goodman Linda Cantoni and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ELIZABETHAN DEMONOLOGY An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils and the Powers Possessed By Them as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation and the Times Immediately Succeeding with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works by THOMAS ALFRED SPALDING . LOND. Barrister-at-Law Honorary Treasurer of The New Shakspere Society London 1880 TO ROBERT BROWNING PRESIDENT OF THE NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED. FOREWORDS. Elizabethan Demonology 2 This Essay is an expansion in accordance with a preconceived scheme of two papers one on The Witches in Macbeth and the other on The Demonology of Shakspere which were read before the New Shakspere Society in the years 1877 and 1878. The Shakspere references in the text are made to the Globe Edition. The writer s best thanks are due to his friends Mr. . Furnivall and Mr. Lauriston E. Shaw for their kindness in reading the proof sheets and suggesting emendations. TEMPLE October 7 1879. We are too hasty when we set down our ancestors in the gross for fools for the monstrous inconsistencies as they seem to us involved in their creed of witchcraft. --C. LAMB. But I will say of Shakspere s works generally that we have no full impress of him there even as full as we have of many men.

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