Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750

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Marion Gibson
Cornell University Press, 2003 - 270 Seiten

A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over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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Witchcraft in the courts
1
The Witchcraft Act 1735
7
Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
19
English demonologies
61
Sweeping sceptic
74
Expert observer
90
Stage and page witches in literature
97
Tragedy
112
Learned men and magic
171
52
182
Comedy
187
Magic and money two tricksters
193
A chemical cozener and an astrologer
199
Witchcraft in America
207
Demonologies
217
Decline and change Restoration to
227

Tragicomic documentary
124
Poetry
149
Possession the devil and the witch
155
Frustrations of a failed witchhunter
162
24
164
Against the devils party
242
Index
263
90
264
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Marion Gibson is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, England. She is the author of Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing and Reading Witchcraft.

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