Table Of ContentShakespeare’s Demonology
A Dictionary
ARDEN SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARIES
SERIES EDITOR
Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Class and Society in Shakespeare Paul Innes
Music in Shakespeare Christopher R. Wilson and Michela Calore
Shakespeare’s Books Stuart Gillespie
Shakespeare’s Demonology Marion Gibson and Jo Ann Esra
Shakespeare and the Language of Food Joan Fitzpatrick
Shakespeare’s Legal Language B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol
Shakespeare’s Medical Language Sujata Iyengar
Shakespeare’s Military Language Charles Edelman
Shakespeare’s Non-Standard English N. F. Blake
Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens Vivian Thomas and Nicki Faircloth
Shakespeare’s Political and Economic Language Vivian Thomas
Shakespeare’s Religious Language R. Chris Hassel, Jr
Shakespeare’s Theatre Hugh Macrae Richmond
FORTHCOMING TITLES:
Shakespeare’s Insults Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Shakespeare and National Identity Christopher Ivic
Shakespeare’s Demonology
A Dictionary
Marion Gibson and Jo Ann Esra
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Series Editor’s Preface vii
Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1
A – Z 7
Bibliography 208
Index 225
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Marion’s Acknowledgements
Thanks to Sandra Clark, the Series Editor, for asking me to edit Shakespeare’s
Demonology and to Jo Esra, without whose enthusiastic and thorough work as a
co-researcher this project would never have been completed. Thanks also to its various
editors during its long process of completion, Anna Fleming, Colleen Coalter and
Margaret Bartley at Bloomsbury. The students on my annual ‘Witchcraft and Magic in
Literature’ module have always been a great source of inspiration and new questions,
and the visiting students attending the University of Exeter’s international summer
school in 2012 were also helpful in allowing me to try out some of this material
in a class on ‘Supernatural Shakespeare’ and responding with thoughtfulness and
excitement. The journey towards this project began at Exeter with Gareth Roberts’
module on ‘Renaissance Magic’ and matured during my MA studies at the Shakespeare
Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, where Stanley Wells, Martin Wiggins and Susan Brock
were particularly helpful in allowing me to begin exploring Shakespeare’s interest in
witchcraft.
Jo’s Acknowledgements
For enabling me to work on Shakespeare’s Demonology, I would like to thank the
editors at Bloomsbury – and Marion Gibson, for inviting me to do so. In both her
role as my PhD supervisor, and as co-researcher on this project, Marion has provided
consistent encouragement, inspiration and support, and I am deeply indebted to her. My
journey here began with Alex Goody, Catherine Spooner and Carolyn D. Williams, and
to each I wish to offer my long-overdue gratitude. I would also like to thank my family
for their remarkable levels of patience and tolerance, with a special thank-you to my
daughter, Evie, for her very helpful and ever-growing enthusiasm for Shakespearean
drama.
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Series Editor’s Preface
The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries aim to provide the student of Shakespeare with
a series of authoritative guides to the principal subject areas covered by the plays and
poems. They are produced by scholars who are experts both on Shakespeare and on
the topic of the individual dictionary, based on the most recent scholarship, succinctly
written and accessibly presented. They offer readers a self-contained body of infor-
mation on the topic under discussion, its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare’s
works, and its contemporary meanings.
The topics are all vital ones for understanding the plays and poems; they have been
selected for their importance in illuminating aspects of Shakespeare’s writings where an
informed understanding of the range of Shakespeare’s usage, and of the contemporary
literary, historical and cultural issues involved, will add to the reader’s appreciation of
his work. Because of the diversity of the topics covered in the series, individual diction-
aries may vary in emphasis and approach, but the aim and basic format of the entries
remain the same from volume to volume.
Sandra Clark
Birkbeck College
University of London
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Abbreviations
A&C Antony and Cleopatra
AWW All’s Well That Ends Well
AYLI As You Like It
Cor. Coriolanus
Cym. Cymbeline
Err. The Comedy of Errors
Ham. Hamlet
1 HIV The First Part of Henry IV
2 HIV The Second Part of Henry IV
HV Henry V
1 HVI The First Part of Henry VI
2 HVI The Second Part of Henry VI
3 HVI The Third Part of Henry VI
HVIII King Henry VIII
JC Julius Caesar
KJ King John
KL King Lear
LC A Lover’s Complaint
LLL Love’s Labours Lost
Luc. The Rape of Lucrece
Mac. Macbeth
MAdo Much Ado About Nothing
MM Measure for Measure
MND A Midsummer Night’s Dream
MerV The Merchant of Venice
MWW The Merry Wives of Windsor
Oth. Othello
Per. Pericles
PP The Passionate Pilgrim
PT The Phoenix and the Turtle
RII King Richard II
RIII King Richard III
R&J Romeo and Juliet
Shrew The Taming of the Shrew
Son. Sonnets
T&C Troilus and Cressida
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Abbreviations
Temp. The Tempest
TGV The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Tim. Timon of Athens
Tit. Titus Andronicus
TN Twelfth Night
TNK The Two Noble Kinsmen
V&A Venus and Adonis
WT The Winter’s Tale
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