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The Witch of Edmonton (Revels Student Editions)
by: Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, John Ford

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822
EAN: 9780719052477
ISBN: 0719052475
Label: Manchester University Press
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: October 07, 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Studio: Manchester University Press
Sales Rank: 13379

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This edition of the multi-authored text The Witch of Edmonton offers a thorough reconsideration of the text, comprehensive notes and glossary, together with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Brilliant contemporay analysis of the witchcraft craze
This play is an unusually intelligent contemporary drama about the witchcraft craze that swept early modern England. The play depicts Mother Sawyer, a lonely, feeble old woman, who is used as a scapegoat by the villagers of Edmonton for all their woes, and is believed to be a witch even though she isn't. In revenge, Mother Sawyer calls on the Devil for a Faustian pact in which she is given magical powers. She has some fun getting her revenge on the villagers, but ultimately the Devil betrays her, and she is hung at Tyburn.

The play is by no means a modern, materialist analysis of witchcraft, but it is unique in highlighting the scapegoating phenomena as a cause of witchcraft, rather than as a justified response to it, and it also ... Read More:

 



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