A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550–1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over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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Marion Gibson teaches 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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Elizabeth Sawyer, Young Banks, Old Banks, Annis Herd, Bridget Bishop, Sir Arthur, Second Witch, Second Luce, Susanna Edwards, Third Witch, Ursley Kempe, Cuddy Banks, Frank Thorney, Agnes Brown, Ales Newman, Increase Mather, New England, Cotton Mather, Grace Barnes, Jesse Bee, Mother Sawyer, Thomas Darling, Anne Ratcliffe, Book One, George Gifford New!
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Elizabeth Sawyer, Young Banks, Old Banks, Annis Herd, Bridget Bishop, Sir Arthur, Second Witch, Second Luce, Susanna Edwards, Third Witch, Ursley Kempe, Cuddy Banks, Frank Thorney, Agnes Brown, Ales Newman, Increase Mather, New England, Cotton Mather, Grace Barnes, Jesse Bee, Mother Sawyer, Thomas Darling, Anne Ratcliffe, Book One, George Gifford New!
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- Dr Faustus (New Mermaids) by Christopher Marlowe on page 171, and page 172
- Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather on page 217, and page 220
- System of Magick by D Defoe on page 242, and page 243
- The Wise Woman of Hoxton (Globe Quartos) by Thomas Heywood on page 187, and page 193
- Mother Bombie (Malone Society Reprint Series) by John Lyly on page 187, and page 193
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