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The Wonderful Discovery Of Elizabeth Sawyer
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Book Synopsis The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer by : Jonathan Vischer
Download or read book The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer written by Jonathan Vischer and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In London’s Newgate prison, Elizabeth Sawyer, the mother of eleven children, lies shackled in her cell. Denounced as a witch by her woodland neighbours and condemned to death by the court, Elizabeth has one last chance to make her peace with this world. By way of confession, she tells the prison chaplain three stories about her life.
Book Synopsis The Witch of Edmonton by : Thomas Dekker
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 excerpt: 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.
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 Singing the News of Death by : Una McIlvenna
Download or read book Singing the News of Death written by Una McIlvenna and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death. Ballads were frequently written in the first-person voice, and often purported to be the last words, confession or 'dying speech' of the condemned criminal, yet were ironically on sale the day of the execution itself. Musical notation was generally not required as ballads were set to well-known tunes. Execution ballads were therefore a medium accessible to all, regardless of literacy, social class, age, gender or location. A genre that retained extraordinary continuities in form and content across time, space, and language, the execution ballad grew in popularity in the nineteenth century, and only began to fade as executions themselves were removed from the public eye. With an accompanying database of recordings, Singing the News of Death brings these centuries-old songs of death back to life.
Book Synopsis The Witch of Edmonton by : William Rowley
Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by William Rowley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 ..."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ford: Introduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory verses. The lover's melancholy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. The broken heart by : John Ford
Download or read book The Works of John Ford: Introduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory verses. The lover's melancholy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. The broken heart written by John Ford and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory verses. The lover's melancholy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. The broken heart by : John Ford
Download or read book Introduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory verses. The lover's melancholy. 'Tis pity she's a whore. The broken heart written by John Ford and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works written by John Ford and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ford by : Alexander Dyce
Download or read book The Works of John Ford written by Alexander Dyce and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ford by : John Ford
Download or read book The Works of John Ford written by John Ford and published by London : J. Toovey. This book was released on 1869 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Witch in History by : Diane Purkiss
Download or read book The Witch in History written by Diane Purkiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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
Book Synopsis Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800 by : Amnon Kabatchnik
Download or read book Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1600 and 1800. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.
Download or read book Malicious History written by Joe Kasti and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1590, shortly after returning from Denmark with his new Queen, James VI of Scotland later James I of England, made the decision to attend the trials of several accused witches from the small kirk of North Berwick. The accused attempted to murder James by using witchcraft to sink the ship upon which he had journeyed. Of all the figures that stand out during the witch hunts of Early Modern Europe, none is more noticeable than James VI of Scotland, later James I of England. Although more famous for his commissioning of a translation of the Bible, his involvement in the which trials have an important and dark place in history. James, perhaps due to his station in life, is considered by many to be the most avid of all witch hunters. He has become a sinister figure in the history of witchcraft. In most writings prior to this century, historians burden him with the deaths of thousands of accused witches.
Book Synopsis Performing the Renaissance Body by : Sidia Fiorato
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 excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time by : Roslyn L. Knutson
Download or read book Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time written by Roslyn L. Knutson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity. No account of early modern literary culture is complete without acknowledgment of these lacunae, and although lost drama has become a topic of increasing interest in Shakespeare studies, it is important to recognize that loss is not restricted to play-texts alone. Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time broadens the scope of the scholarly conversation about loss beyond drama and beyond London. It aims to develop further models and techniques for thinking about lost plays, but also of other kinds of lost early modern works, and even lost persons associated with literary and theatrical circles. Chapters examine textual corruption, oral preservation, quantitative analysis, translation, and experiments in “verbatim theater”, plus much more.
Book Synopsis The New British Traveller, Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales by : James Dugdale
Download or read book The New British Traveller, Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales written by James Dugdale and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roaring Boys written by Judith Cook and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of anecdotes, this book aims to recreate the lives and times of the playwrights and actors such as, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Jonson, as well as the world in which they lived from 1578 when Burbage built the first 'purpose built' theatre to 1620 when the great age came to its end.
