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Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays

Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays

Corbin, Peter

Paperback

Series: Revels Companionl Library

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0719019532
ISBN13: 9780719019531
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Oct 20 1986
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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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