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The Merry Devil Of Edmonton And The Witch Of Edmonton
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Book Synopsis The Witch of Edmonton by : John Ford
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 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Merry Devil of Edmonton and The Witch of Edmonton by : Thomas Dekker
Download or read book The Merry Devil of Edmonton and The Witch of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two little known Elizabethan plays, one a comedy the other a tragedy, both set in the village of Edmonton, now a neighbourhood of North London, here adapted for production in Edmonton, Canada. Both plays were given their first performance in the City of Edmonton as staged readings as part of Malachite Theatre's first Winter Shakespeare Festival, January, 2020. In the "Merry Devil of Edmonton", follow the exploits of Smug the Smith and his friends as they poach deer, sing songs, and, under the guidance of the magician, Fabell, help the younger generation pull their elders into the Sixteenth Century! And, in "The Witch of Edmonton", follow the tragic true story of Elizabeth Sawyer, an impoverished woman scapegoated as a witch by her fellow villagers and lead to the gallows.
Book Synopsis The Witch of Edmonton by : Thomas Dekker
Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1980 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The lady's trial. The sun's darling. The witch of Edmonton. Fames̕ memorial. Poems. Honour triumphant. A line of life. Glossarial index by : John Ford
Download or read book The lady's trial. The sun's darling. The witch of Edmonton. Fames̕ memorial. Poems. Honour triumphant. A line of life. Glossarial index written by John Ford and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 by : Various
Download or read book The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Witch of Edmonton by : Lucy Munro
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 excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 by : Marion Gibson
Download or read book Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 written by Marion Gibson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, this work provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript. It presents the voices of witches, accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by : Reuben Percy
Download or read book The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction written by Reuben Percy and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
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Book Synopsis The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by : Thomas Byerly
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha by : Peter Kirwan
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha written by Peter Kirwan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the methodologies and assumptions governing answers to the question 'what did Shakespeare actually write?'
Book Synopsis Middlesex by : George Frederick Bosworth
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Book Synopsis Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England by : Marcus Harmes
Download or read book Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England written by Marcus Harmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly when it came to issues of authority. Without a precise separation between ’science’ and ’magic’ the realm of the supernatural was a contested one, that could be used both to bolster and challenge various forms of authority and the exercise of power in early modern England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume addresses a range of questions regarding the ways in which ideas, beliefs and constructions of the supernatural threatened and conflicted with authority, as well as how the power of the supernatural could be used by authorities (monarchical, religious, legal or familial) to reinforce established social norms. Drawing upon a range of historical, literary and dramatic texts the collection reveals intersecting early modern anxieties in relation to the supernatural, issues of control and the exercise of power at different levels of society, from the upper echelons of power at court to local and domestic spaces, and in a range of publication contexts - manuscript sources, printed prose texts and the early modern stage. Divided into three sections - ’Magic at Court’, ’Performance, Text and Language’ and ’Witchcraft, the Devil and the Body’ - the volume offers a broad cultural approach to the subject that reflects current research by a range of early modern scholars from the disciplines of history and literature. By bringing scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue, the case studies presented here generate fresh insights within and between disciplines and different methodologies and approaches, which are mutually illuminating.
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Book Synopsis Greater London: a narrative of its history, its people, and its places by : Edward Walford
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Book Synopsis Anecdotes of British Topography by : Richard Gough
Download or read book Anecdotes of British Topography written by Richard Gough and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1768 work provides a thorough guide to the sources available for the study of British and Irish antiquities.
Book Synopsis The Relations of Shirley's Plays to the Elizabethan Drama by : Robert Stanley Forsythe
Download or read book The Relations of Shirley's Plays to the Elizabethan Drama written by Robert Stanley Forsythe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
