The Witch of Edmonton - Softcover

Rowley, William; Dekker, Thomas; Ford, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1979640017 ISBN 13: 9781979640015

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621. The play—"probably the most sophisticated treatment of domestic tragedy in the whole of Elizabethan-Jacobean drama"—is based on supposedly real-life events that took place in the village of Edmonton, then outside London, earlier that year. The play depicts Elizabeth Sawyer, an old woman shunned by her neighbours, who gets revenge by selling her soul to the Devil, who appears to her in the shape of a black dog called Tom. In addition, there are two subplots. One depicts a bigamist who murders his second wife at the devil's prompting, and the other depicts a clownish yokel who befriends the devil-dog.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Munro is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK. She is also Secretary of the Marlowe Society of America, Publicity Officer for the Malone Society, and a member of the Architecture Research Group at Shakespeare's Globe and the steering group of the London Renaissance Seminar.

Review:

'strange but spellbinding... I've never seen anything quite like The Witch of Edmonton... darkly seductive' - Times 'darkly comic' - Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1979640017
• ISBN 13: 9781979640015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96