Three Jacobean witchcraft plays: Sphonisba, the Witch, the Witch of Edmonton (The Revels Plays Companion Library) - Softcover

Corbin, Peter

 
9780719019531: Three Jacobean witchcraft plays: Sphonisba, the Witch, the Witch of Edmonton (The Revels Plays Companion Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719019532 ISBN 13: 9780719019531
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

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 volume 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 commentaries explore the theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of "The Witch of Edmonton", have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Corbin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter

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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 volume 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 commentaries explore the theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of "The Witch of Edmonton", have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.

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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 volume 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 commentaries explore the theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of "The Witch of Edmonton", have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719019532
ISBN 13 
9780719019531
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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