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The Witch of Edmonton: New Mermaids

Autor John Ford Editat de Arthur F. Kinney Autor Thomas Dekker, William Rowley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 1998
It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were beingburnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although therewere a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the playdramatises - were not widely infected by the witch-craze. The stageseems to have provided an outlet for anxieties about witchcraft, aswell as an opportunity for public analysis. The Witch of Edmonton(1621) manifests this fundamentally reasonable attitude, with Dekkerinsisting on justice for the poor and oppressed, Ford providingpsychological character studies, and Rowley the clowning. The villagecommunity of Edmonton feels threatened by two misfits, Old MotherSawyer, who has turned to the devil to aid her against her unfeelingneighbours, and Frank, who refuses to marry the woman of his father'schoice and ends up murdering her. This edition shows how the playgenerates sympathy for both and how contemporaries would have respondedto its presentation of village life and witchcraft.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780713642537
ISBN-10: 071364253X
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: c 5 photographs/line drawings
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria New Mermaids

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Descriere

This tragi-comedy took as foundation the news report of the executionfor witchcraft of Elizabeth Sawyer, as related by Henry Goodcole.However, the superstructure of love, bigamy and pretension was given atleast as much weight. Both plots echoed the social forces at work inEdmonton.

Notă biografică

Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley were Jacobean dramatists writing between 1600 and 1635. Regular collaborators, on plays such as The Changeling (Rowley and Middleton), Westward Ho (Dekker and Webster), John Ford enjoyed the greatest individual success with his masterpiece ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore.