The Witch of Edmonton

Informationen zum Autor Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005), Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men (2020), and the editor of plays including Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton . Klappentext 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.This edition of The Witch of Edmonton offers an extensive introduction by leading scholar Lucy Munro, providing a fresh assessment of the playâ™s tragicomic representation of witchcraft and bigamy, exploring in detail its original composition, performance and publication contexts, and offering its most complete and richly illustrated stage history to date. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Vorwort
This edition of The Witch of Edmonton offers an extensive introduction by leading scholar Lucy Munro, providing a fresh assessment of the play's tragicomic representation of witchcraft and bigamy, exploring in detail its original composition, performance and publication contexts, and offering its most complete and richly illustrated stage history to date.

Autorentext
Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005), Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men (2020), and the editor of plays including Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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