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Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England
| Title: | Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England |
| Author: | Porterfield, Melissa Rynn |
| Description: | This work traces the theatrical representation of the witch on the Early Modern English stage. I examine the ways in which the witch was constructed as a binary opposite against which dominant society could define itself. This work provides close readings of three representative plays from the era: Macbeth, The Witch of Edmonton, and The Witches of Edmonton. I also investigate the significance of the personal involvement of King James I in real-life witch trials. This work breaks the progression of the witch into three stages - fear, familiarity, and ridicule – each of which served to allay the anxieties of dominant culture. Situating the texts within the specific historical cosmology of their original productions, I suggest one possible mapping of the intersections of the intersections of gender, class, nation, politics, and economics which they depict. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1114108678
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/18587 |
| Date: | 2005 |
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