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| | Occult Philosophy Elizabethan Age |
 | | …the dominant philosophy of the Elizabethan age was precisely the occult philosophy, with its magic, its melancholy, its aim of penetrating into profound spheres of knowledge and experience, scientific and spiritual, its fear of the dangers of such a quest, and of the fierce opposition which it encountered. |
 | | With the assault on occult philosophy in Faustus was associated the anti-Semitism of The Jew of Malta. |
 | | Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the occult, with ghosts, witches, fairies, is understood as deriving less form popular tradition than from deep-rooted affinity with the learned occult philosophy and its religious implications. |
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