The Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays

It is fairly well established that witchcraft and similar topics play a substantial role in theater. Indeed, the very act of illusion present there is occult in form; but Shakespeare, at least in the pre-modern period, plays, as it were, a more substantial part in this than most contemporary producers of on-stage entertainment. Looking specifically at "The Tempest," "Macbeth," and "Julius Caesar," and to a lesser extent several other works, this booklet, from a theosophical background, seeks to enumerate some of the more substantial occultism present therein.