The Witch Of Edmonton
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The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : John Ford
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-18
The Witch Of Edmonton written by John Ford and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with Drama categories.
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
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Author : Thomas Dekker
language : en
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Release Date : 1980
The Witch Of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and has been published by Dissertations-G this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Drama categories.
The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : Lucy Munro
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-15
The Witch Of Edmonton written by Lucy Munro and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Drama categories.
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.
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays
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Author : Peter Corbin
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1986
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays written by Peter Corbin and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Drama categories.
For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book - Sophonisba, The Witch and The Witch of Edmonton - reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Jacobean understanding of witchcraft is illuminated by the close study of these contrasting texts in relation to each other and to other contemporary works: The Masque of Queenes; Dr Faustus; Macbeth and The Tempest. The introduction and detailed commentaries explore the considerable theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of The Witch of Edmonton, have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.
The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : Thomas Dekker
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1983
The Witch Of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Drama categories.
The Witch Of Edmonton A Known True Story
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
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The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : Thomas Dekker
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-01-24
The Witch Of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-24 with categories.
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.
The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : Friedrich Bielefeld
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
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The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : William Rowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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The Merry Devil Of Edmonton And The Witch Of Edmonton
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Author : Thomas Dekker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-04
The Merry Devil Of Edmonton And The Witch Of Edmonton written by Thomas Dekker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-04 with categories.
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.