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The Witch of Edmonton

By John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)
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By John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)
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It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English — although there were a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the play dramatises — were not widely infected by the witch—craze. The stage seems to have provided an outlet for anxieties about witchcraft, as well as an opportunity for public analysis. The Witch of Edmonton
(1621) manifests this fundamentally reasonable attitude, with Dekker insisting on just...

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