The Witch of Edmonton (Methuen Student Editions) - Softcover

Dekker, Thomas; Ford, John; Rawley, William; Trussler, Simon; Russell, Jacqui

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413532607 ISBN 13: 9780413532602

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and, just as Elizabeth Sawyer makes her demonic pact, the newlywed Frank Thorney enters into his own dark bargain in the shape of a second, bigamous marriage. Torn between sympathy for Sawyer and Thorney and a clear-eyed assessment of their crimes, the play was the finest and most nuanced treatment of witchcraft that the stage would see for centuries. Lucy Munro's introduction provides students and scholars with a detailed understanding of this complex play.

About this title

Review:

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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0413532607
• ISBN 13: 9780413532602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128