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posted on 2023-08-30, 13:45 authored by Gyorgy E. Szonyi, Rowland Wymer
John Dee, ‘Queen Elizabeth’s conjuror’, as a recent biography has called him, has attracted considerable attention during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries among intellectual historians of the English Renaissance, including historians of science. During the last two decades especially there has been a steady flow of publications. Dee has also featured in a growing body of literary and popular fiction, films, plays, multimedia performances, graphic novels, and operas. The present paper reviews a range of this material and demonstrates that, particularly since the 1960s, the figure of Dee has performed a number of different cultural functions, sometimes appearing more as vulnerable human being than magus, but appealing particularly to those artists who, like Derek Jarman, see him as epitomising a dream of transformative and visionary power with close analogies to the way the creative imagination itself works.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

15

Issue number

3

Page range

189-209

Publication title

European Journal of English Studies

ISSN

1744-4233

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2013-05-20

Legacy creation date

2022-02-18

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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