An introduction to one of the most amazing but least talked about events in British history: the invention of theatre. This reinvented reality and human character; and sparked one of the greatest moral panics of all time, as Puritans raged against the new permanent playhouses in London. And right at the start here, one of the most terrifying dramas ever staged exploded upon a traumatised public. Marlowe's Dr Faustus was The Exorcist of its day, and worse. What role did the soul and the biology of the soul play in this?

From my book, The Smoke of the Soul: Science, Religion and the Invention of the Self.

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