Thomas Dekker, John Ford, William Rowley

The Witch of Edmonton

Ed. by Arthur F. Kinney

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• New Mermaids
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Specialist
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9780713642537
• ISBN-10: 071364253X
• Artikelnr.: 14444332

Autorenporträt

John Ford (1586-1639) was an English playwright whose works have often been cited as examples of the 'decadence' of Caroline Drama. In the 19th century he was admired by Charles Lamb but attacked by William Hazlitt and others, who accused him of lacking a sense of morality. However, many 20th-century critics have praised his insight into character and his skill in writing dialogue His best known play is the bloody tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1627). Other works inlcude Love's Sacrifice (1627), the tragicomedy The Lover's Melancholy (1628), and Perkin Warbeck (1634), described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the very best historical plays in the whole of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama".

Inhaltsangabe

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