Literature & Literary Studies
The Witch of Edmonton
by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford
by Peter Corbin, David Bevington, Douglas Sedge
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The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time. This edition offers a thorough reconsideration of the text with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole. This edition will be of particular interest not only to students of Renaissance Drama but also of the cultural history of the seventeenth century.. Open University adopted text (for their new Renaissance Drama module). ;
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The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre.. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time.. This edition offers a thorough reconsideration of the text with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.. This edition will be of particular interest not only to students of Renaissance Drama but also of the cultural history of the seventeenth century.. Open University adopted text (for their new Renaissance Drama module). -
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The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre.. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time.. This edition offers a thorough reconsideration of the text with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.. This edition will be of particular interest not only to students of Renaissance Drama but also of the cultural history of the seventeenth century.. Open University adopted text (for their new Renaissance Drama module). -
Author Biography
Peter Corbin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter; David Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago; Douglas Sedge is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date October 1999
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719052477 / 0719052475
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 12.95 USD
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions198 X 129 Millimeters
- SeriesRevels Student Editions
- Reference CodeIPR2247
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