The Witch of Edmonton - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393900878 ISBN 13: 9780393900873

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1998

Synopsis

New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the plav. New Mermaids include plays by Beaumont, Behn, Boucicault, Chapman, Congreve, Dekker, Dryden, Etherege, Farquhar, Ford, Goldsmith, Hevwood, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Marston, Massinger, Middleton, Peele, Rowley, Sheridan, Synge, Tourneur, Vanbrugh, Webster, Wilde, and Wvcherley.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Corbin was General Editor of the Revels Plays Companion Library and is Honorary Fellow in the School of Drama and Music at the University of Exeter

Douglas Sedge is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter

Review:

The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre.. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time.. This edition offers a thorough reconsideration of the text with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.. This edition will be of particular interest not only to students of Renaissance Drama but also of the cultural history of the seventeenth century.. Open University adopted text (for their new Renaissance Drama module).

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0393900878
• ISBN 13: 9780393900873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116
• Editor: Dekker Thomas