This Essay is an expansion, in accordance with a preconceived scheme, of two papers, one on "The Witches in Macbeth," and the other on "The Demonology of Shakspere," which were read before the New Shakspere Society in the years 1877 and 1878. The Shakspere references in the text are made to the Globe Edition. The writer's best thanks are due to his friends Mr. F.J. Furnivall and Mr. Lauriston E. Shaw, for their kindness in reading the proof sheets, and suggesting emendations.

Thomas Alfred Spalding described "Elizabethan Demonology" as an 'Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding with Special Reference to Shakespeare and His Works.' Now, nereusmedia presents a newly annotated edition with an Introduction by August Moldenhauer with special attention not only to the Elizabethan Era of Shakespeare, but to the spiritualism and superstitions of the Victorian Era in which Spalding wrote. August Moldenhauer's annotated version updates this classic work on demonology, witchcraft, and devils for the 21st century reader.

Elizabethan Demonology-full title-"Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works" is a classic text on the subjects of occultism and the works of Shakespeare by Thomas A. Spalding.