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The Witch of Edmonton

by Lucy Munro

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-15
ISBN : 1408140179
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (81 users)
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Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by Lucy Munro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and, just as Elizabeth Sawyer makes her demonic pact, the newlywed Frank Thorney enters into his own dark bargain in the shape of a second, bigamous marriage. Torn between sympathy for Sawyer and Thorney and a clear-eyed assessment of their crimes, the play was the finest and most nuanced treatment of witchcraft that the stage would see for centuries. Lucy Munro's introduction provides students and scholars with a detailed understanding of this complex play.

The Witch of Edmonton

by John Ford

Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-06-13
ISBN : 1408144247
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (81 users)
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Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by John Ford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although there were a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the play dramatises - were not widely infected by the witch-craze. The stage seems to have provided an outlet for anxieties about witchcraft, as well as an opportunity for public analysis. The Witch of Edmonton (1621) manifests this fundamentally reasonable attitude, with Dekker insisting on justice for the poor and oppressed, Ford providing psychological character studies, and Rowley the clowning. The village community of Edmonton feels threatened by two misfits, Old Mother Sawyer, who has turned to the devil to aid her against her unfeeling neighbours, and Frank, who refuses to marry the woman of his father's choice and ends up murdering her. This edition shows how the play generates sympathy for both and how contemporaries would have responded to its presentation of village life and witchcraft.

The Witch of Edmonton

by Thomas Dekker

Publisher : Broadview Press
Release Date : 2021-11-22
ISBN : 1770488294
Pages : 162 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (74 users)
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Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: At the center of this remarkable 1621 play is the story of Elizabeth Sawyer, the titular “Witch of Edmonton,” a woman who had in fact been executed for the crime of witchcraft mere months before the play’s first performance. Described by the authors as a tragi-comedy and drawn in part from a pamphlet account of the trial then circulating, the play not only offers a riveting account of the contemporary superstitions embodied by the figure of the witch, but also delivers an implicit critique of the society that has created her. This edition of the work offers a compelling and informative introduction, thorough annotation, and a selection of contextual materials that helps set the play in the context of the “witch-craze” of Jacobean England.

The Witch of Edmonton

by Lucy Munro

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-15
ISBN : 1408140187
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (81 users)
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Essays on Dramatic Traditions

by Mary Beth Rose

Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1989
ISBN : 9780810106819
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (68 users)
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Download or read book Essays on Dramatic Traditions written by Mary Beth Rose and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.

Dangerous Familiars

by Frances E. Dolan

Publisher : Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN : 9780801481345
Pages : 274 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (813 users)
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Download or read book Dangerous Familiars written by Frances E. Dolan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.

Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance

by Douglas F. Rutledge

Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 9780874135732
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (357 users)
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Download or read book Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance written by Douglas F. Rutledge and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance is a contribution to the history of cultural semiotics in Early Modern Europe. Prof. Thomas M. Greene's theoretical exposition introduces a series of articles that consider the interaction between literary production and ceremonial performance in the larger cultural text of the Renaissance. The Renaissance engaged in a greater number of ceremonial performances than the preceding era, but the Reformation had irrevocably altered the language of ceremony, reducing its magical efficacity and diminishing its ability to inspire community. According to Professor Greene, the essays address one large but limited area of semiotic practice, the social role of ceremonial performance during the early modern period, examining the interplay between ceremonial and the narrative, dramatic, or poetic text.

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

by Jonathan Barry

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-03-12
ISBN : 9780521638753
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (387 users)
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Download or read book Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe written by Jonathan Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.

The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”

by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

Publisher : Author House
Release Date : 2014-10-09
ISBN : 1496992806
Pages : 129 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (969 users)
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Download or read book The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” written by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.

The Body Embarrassed

by Gail Kern Paster

Publisher : Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN : 9780801480607
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (86 users)
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Download or read book The Body Embarrassed written by Gail Kern Paster and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the visible social body and the history of the subject's body as experienced from within. Focusing on specific bodily functions and on changes in the forms of embarrassment associated with them, Paster extends the insights of such critics and theorists as Mikhail Bakhtin, Norbert Elias, and Thomas Laqueur. She first surveys comic depictions of incontinent women as "leaky vessels" requiring patriarchal management and then considers the relation between medical bloodletting practices and the gender implications of blood symbolism. Next she relates the practice of purging to the theme of shame and assays ideas about pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing in medical and other nonliterary texts. Paster then turns to the use of reproductive processes in the plot structures of key Shakespeare plays and in Dekker's, Ford's, and Rowley's Witch of Edmonton. Including twelve vivid illustrations, The Body Embarrassed will be fascinating reading for students and scholars in the fields of Renaissance studies, gender studies, literary theory, the history of drama, and cultural history.

Duologues for All Accents and Ages

by Eamonn Jones

Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2002-11
ISBN : 9780878301683
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (16 users)
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Download or read book Duologues for All Accents and Ages written by Eamonn Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Performing the Renaissance Body

by Sidia Fiorato

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-03-21
ISBN : 3110464810
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (14 users)
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Download or read book Performing the Renaissance Body written by Sidia Fiorato and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The volume analyses the concept of the “body” in the Renaissance period and its articulations and interpretations both in the legal field and the theatre. The body emerges as a site of regulation, shaped by social and political ideologies and specific networks of power, as well as a site of resistance to the codification of individual identity and the medium for its re-assertion in strict connection to the concept of the juridical persona.

The Witch of Edmonton

by Thomas Dekker

Publisher : Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-01-24
ISBN :
Pages : 68 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (992 users)
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Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Elizabeth Sawyer is old, poor, malformed, and ugly. She faces the scorn of many and the persecution of most. At her wit's end, she engages in a deal with the devil who appears in the form of a black dog. The consequences of this pact with Lucifer is most tellingly a pestilence playing out upon the cattle of Old Banks and the rotting of his grain. In response to this, the people attempt to burn down the absolute hovel she calls home, but the witch's tongue proves too powerful for the weak-willed villagers. Until, that is, Elizabeth oversteps even the boundaries of the devil's plaything. The spell she casts upon Ann Ratcliffe to drive her over the edge of insanity results in the poor woman smashing her own head in. This prove to be the final nail that the old woman nails into her own coffin and she executed after being tried and convicted of being a witch.

Guilty Creatures

by Dennis Kezar

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-12
ISBN : 0199753377
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (997 users)
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Download or read book Guilty Creatures written by Dennis Kezar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.

The Witch in History

by Diane Purkiss

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
ISBN : 1134882394
Pages : 303 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (348 users)
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Download or read book The Witch in History written by Diane Purkiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: 'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic

by Jonathan Gil Harris

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-07
ISBN : 9780521594059
Pages : 222 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (94 users)
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Download or read book Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic written by Jonathan Gil Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period display an increasingly xenophobic tendency to attribute England's ills to 'foreign bodies' such as Jews, Catholics and witches, as well as treat their allegedly 'poisonous' features for the health of the body politic. Harris argues that this tendency resonates with two of the distinctive paradigms of Paracelsus' pharmacy which also includes the notion that poison has a medicinal power. The emergence of these paradigms in early modern English political thought signals a decisive shift from Galenic humoral tradition towards twentieth-century politico-medical discourses of 'infection' and 'containment', which, like their early modern predecessors, make mysterious the domestic origins of social conflict and the operations of political authority.

Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World

by Kimberly Anne Coles

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-03
ISBN : 1317041011
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (17 users)
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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World written by Kimberly Anne Coles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how the body’s transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of the body – in social and political terms – gives it shape.