The Visual Spectacle Of Witchcraft In Jacobean Plays

Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher : Author House
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781496992833

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The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed Pdf

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.

Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher : Author House
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781496992802

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The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed Pdf

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.

Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781496992819

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The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Corbin,Douglas Sedge
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719019532

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Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin,Douglas Sedge Pdf

For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book - Sophonisba, The Witch and The Witch of Edmonton - reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Jacobean understanding of witchcraft is illuminated by the close study of these contrasting texts in relation to each other and to other contemporary works: The Masque of Queenes; Dr Faustus; Macbeth and The Tempest. The introduction and detailed commentaries explore the considerable theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of The Witch of Edmonton, have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.

Author : Peter Corbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1200050686

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Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin Pdf

Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134882397

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The Witch in History by Diane Purkiss Pdf

'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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047432944

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Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 by Anonim Pdf

This volume examines both the events that shaped the Jacobean Witchcraft Act, and its subsequent impact on the culture and society of seventeenth-century England until its repeal in 1736.

Author : Eric Pudney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9198376861

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Scepticism and Belief in English Witchcraft Drama, 1538-1681 by Eric Pudney Pdf

This book explores the representation of witchcraft in early modern drama, situating it within the discourse of scepticism and credulity that characterised the witchcraft debate, and the historical events which inspired much witchcraft drama. It covers the drama of the Elizabethan period and the Restoration as well as Jacobean witch plays.

Author : Dawn A. Saliba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic dissertations
ISBN : 1303310589

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King James and the Theatre of Witches by Dawn A. Saliba Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015041437768

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Shakespearean Criticism by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : John Ford,Thomas Dekker,William Rowley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144244

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The Witch of Edmonton by John Ford,Thomas Dekker,William Rowley Pdf

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 justice for the poor and oppressed, Ford providing psychological character studies, and Rowley the clowning. The village community of Edmonton feels threatened by two misfits, Old Mother Sawyer, who has turned to the devil to aid her against her unfeeling neighbours, and Frank, who refuses to marry the woman of his father's choice and ends up murdering her. This edition shows how the play generates sympathy for both and how contemporaries would have responded to its presentation of village life and witchcraft.

Author : Anthony Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013306959

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Night's Black Agents by Anthony Harris Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068939142

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The Shakespeare Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Poole
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719062047

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The Lancashire Witches by Robert Poole Pdf

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.

Author : Bruce R. Smith,Katherine Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1107057256

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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare by Bruce R. Smith,Katherine Rowe Pdf

This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.