Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Craik, Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England SP - 29-46 ID - bbbc351 T1 - "Feeling Fear in Macbeth" AU - Hobgood, Allison P PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - terror KW - superstition KW - passion KW - disease KW - fear LA - English AB - Discusses Macbeth's reputation for terror, including the history of superstitions surrounding it, and argues that the play "confirms Renaissance playgoing as a dangerous endeavor that conjured contagiously sickening passions in spectators by employing their knowledge of fear as bodily disease." ER -