The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays
The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays

Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1496992830

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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

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1496992814

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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

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1134882394

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'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:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13:

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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.

The Witches of Lancashire
The Witches of Lancashire

Author: Richard Brome

Publisher: Theatre Arts Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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In this ribald comedy, first performed at The Globe in 1634, everything is going wrong at a wedding, and everyone in attendance is eager to believe a local coven is to blame.

Night's Black Agents
Night's Black Agents

Author: Anthony Harris

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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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.

Witchcraft and the Act of 1604
Witchcraft and the Act of 1604

Author: John Newton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-04-09

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004165282

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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.

The Politics of Parody
The Politics of Parody

Author: David Francis Taylor

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0300235593

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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.

Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare's Comedies

Author: Gary Fredric Waller

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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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.