The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays

The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays
Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1496992830

The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays: Blackfriars Theatre is an ideal reference for early modern scholars and lecturers who seek a thorough and practical guide to stage directions in print and performance, and paying particular attention to the early texts as evidence of performance practice. Stage directions here are re-thought in the light of early theatre practice, and the issues of stage directions as evidence of performance practice and later interpolations, in association with witchcraft, of several Jacobean plays can be found in this book. This book includes a general introduction to Blackfriars witchcraft plays and the Jacobean theatre, a chronology, suggestions for further reading and discussing performance options on both indoor and outdoor playhouses, and a commentary. The illuminating and informative general introduction and the short introductions to individual plays have been revised in the light of current scholarship.

The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”

The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1496992814

The Staging of Witchcraft and a Spectacle of Strangeness: Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.

The Witch in History

The Witch in History
Author: Diane Purkiss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134882394

'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Shakespearean Criticism

Shakespearean Criticism
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1984
Genre:
ISBN:

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes 27-56 focus on criticism published after 1960 and provide readers with thematic approaches to Shakespeare's works. The plays, theme or focus of this volume include: Magic and the supernatural, Macbeth, A midsummer night's dream, and The tempest. - Publisher.

Night's Black Agents

Night's Black Agents
Author: Anthony Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1980
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

As a young man, photographer Zahedi became friends with Elizabeth Taylor, and the relationship changed his life. Now he shares his unforgettable photographs of Taylor, collected for the first time. Text explores her facets, and document her playful, carefree side away from movie sets and crowds.

The Politics of Parody

The Politics of Parody
Author: David Francis Taylor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300235593

This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor’s book explores how great texts, seen through the lens of visual parody, shape how we understand the political world. It offers a fascinating, novel approach to literary history.

The Lancashire Witches

The Lancashire Witches
Author: Robert Poole
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719062049

A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death.

Shakespeare's Comedies

Shakespeare's Comedies
Author: Gary Fredric Waller
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Discusses: The Comedy of errors, The Taming of the shrew, Love's labour's lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, As you like it, Twelfth Night, All's Well that ends well, Measure for measure.

The Witch of Edmonton

The Witch of Edmonton
Author: William Rowley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1999
Genre: Edmonton (England)
ISBN: 9780719052477

"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 ..."--Back cover.