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9781472503282

The Witch of Edmonton

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  • ISBN13:

    9781472503282

  • ISBN10:

    1472503287

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-12-15
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lucy Munro is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK. She is also Secretary of the Marlowe Society of America, Publicity Officer for the Malone Society, and a member of the Architecture Research Group at Shakespeare's Globe and the steering group of the London Renaissance Seminar.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
General editors' preface
Preface
Introduction
Prince Charles's Men, 1618-22
Collaborations
Reading Elizabeth Sawyer in 1621
Witchcraft and Bigamy: 1621 and 1658
Danger and Death: Tragicomedy and Domestic Drama in 1621
Curtain and Cockpit: Staging the Supernatural in 1621
London and Lancashire: Staging Witchcraft in 1634
The Witch and the Dog
Staging The Witch of Edmonton: 1921 to 2014
Edmonton on Stage
The Witch and the Dog: Reprise
Forget the Hobby Horse!
Printing The Witch of Edmonton: 1658 and 2014

Quarto Paratext

THE WITCH OF EDMONTON

Appendix: Doubling chart

Abbreviations and References
Abbreviations used in notes
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
Editions of The Witch of Edmonton collated
Other works cited
Modern productions cited

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