The Witch of Edmonton (Dodo Press) - Softcover

Dekker, Thomas; Rowley, William; Ford, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409961168 ISBN 13: 9781409961161

Publisher: Dodo Press, 2009

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, outside London, earlier in the 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

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: Dodo Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1409961168
• ISBN 13: 9781409961161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104