Gibson

Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750

Herausgeber: Gibson, Marion

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Produktbeschreibung

A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over three centuries. It combines newly annotated selections from famous texts, such as Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, and The Faerie Queene with unjustly obscure ones: portrayals of witchcraft and magic from private papers, court records, and little-known works of fiction. In this rich, broad context, Marion Gibson presents the voices of "witches," accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic. Each text is introduced with a short essay and fully annotated to explain unfamiliar words and concepts, give biographical details of participants and/or authors, and explore the context in which the text was produced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780826483003
• ISBN-10: 0826483003
• Artikelnr.: 22605939

Autorenporträt

Marion Gibson teaches at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, England. She is the author of Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing and Reading Witchcraft.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Witchcraft in the Courts
An Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Enchantments 1541/2
An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563
An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked
Spirits 1604
The Witchcraft Act 1735
Information and Examination: Suffolk 1645
Printed Information and Examination: Devon 1682
Indictment: Essex 1579
2. Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
The examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566
W.W., A true and just Recorde (London, 1582)
A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 1612
3. English Demonologies
George Gifford, A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London,
1593)
Reginold Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584)
John Cotta, The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616)
4. Stage and Page: Witches in Literature
Thomas Middleton, The Witch (c.1613-15)
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1606)
John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590)
Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queenes (1609)
Miles Gale (?), 'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds'
5. Possession: The Devil and the Witch
Jesse Bee and others, The most Wonderful and True Storie, of a certain
Witch named Alse Gooderige (London, 1597)
Edward Fairfax, 'A Discourse of witchcraft'  (1621-22)
6. Learned Men and Magic
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( A text, 1604)
Anon, The Merry Devil of Edmonton (c.1604)
7. Magic and Money: A Trickster
Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (c.1604)
Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)
8. Witchcraft in America
Examination of Bridget Bishop
Indictment of Bridget Bishop for afflicting Mercy Lewis
Susannah Sheldon, evidence against Bridget Bishop and others
Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston and London, 1693)
Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience (Boston, 1693)
John Hale, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702)
9. Decline and Change: Restoration to Eighteenth Century
Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1681)
Francis Hutchison, An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (London, 1718)
Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, or a History of the Black Art (London,
1727)
Select Bibliography and Further Reading