![]() ![]() This book is divided into four parts and takes up about 150 pages or so worth of material. ![]() Admittedly, the author assumes that the reader does not know much about demonology at all, but it is a bit strange when the reader of the book does have beliefs in demonology that are closer to the Elizabethan era than they are to the presumed audience that the writer has, which is something rather disconcerting when the reader tries to convince the reader that the people of the 16th and 17th centuries actually believed in demons as if that was a strange or unusual belief to have in the 19th century, to say nothing about the 21st century. ![]() Part of the author's point is to encourage the reader to recognize the topical importance of demonology and how it was viewed in the times that Shakespeare wrote to the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. 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. Reading this book was a somewhat strange feeling for me personally. ![]()
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