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...of Sussex. His thesis is a bibliographical study of English demonology and witchcraft writing from the period 1560-1660. His research is sponsored by the AHRC. ---., ed. Matthew Hopkins & John Stearne, ''The Discovery of Witches and Witchcraft: The Writings of the Witchfinders'' (2007).

Love comedy / witchcraft play (Adams); historical? (see below) ...previously linked with this lost play, but there was one famous historical witchcraft case associated with the Westminster area. This was that of Margery Jourde

'''H. W. Herrington''' posits a “dramatic vogue” for witchcraft plays in the late 1590s (478), and, after discussing [[Mother Redcap]], wri .../div> <div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Herrington, H. W. “Witchcraft and Magic in the Elizabethan Drama”. ''The Journal of American Folklore''

===Witchcraft=== ...chcraft play. H. W. Herrington, for example, posits a “dramatic vogue” for witchcraft plays in the late 1590s (p. 478), and, after discussing [[Mother Redcap]],

...cbeth, King James, and Witchcraft", in John G. Newton and Jo Bath (eds), ''Witchcraft and the Act of 1604'' (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008)</div> [[Category: tragedy]] [[Category:Scottish Play]] [[Category:witchcraft]][[category:All]][[category:Henslowe's records]][[category:Roy Booth]][[cat

...being drawne away by the ''eloquence'' of ambitious men, as it were by the witchcraft of ''Medea'', divided into ''faction'', they consume it rather by those fla ...the Daughters of ''Pelias'' consenteth through Eloquence, which is as the Witchcraft of ''Medea'', to cut the Common Wealth in pieces, upon Pretence, or Hope of

...by the common culture of the occult" (149). Expanding on that interest in witchcraft and drama, she adds in a note that "Forman's rendition barely sounds like S ...man]][[category:Globe]][[category:King's]][[category:magicians]][[category:witchcraft]][[category:Bodleian Library]]

Reginald Scot’s ''The Discoverie of Witchcraft'' (1584) suggests the character was seen largely as a figure of fantasy, th ...padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Scot, Reginald. ''The discouerie of witchcraft.'' London, 1584. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home ''EEBO'']</div>

...Bastille. After repeated interrogations and a trial, she was convicted of witchcraft and, along with her husband, of <i>lèse majesté</i>. An executioner behe ...ivy Council]] [[category:Suppressed drama]] [[category:France]] [[category:witchcraft]] [[category:all]]

...s include famished prisoners who cannibalize a scholar "imprisoned … [for] witchcraft"; in the shape of a black dog, the scholar haunts them in prison and "takes

:Or is all witchcraft braind with ''Doctor Lambe''?

In a discussion of "the dramatic vogue" for witchcraft plays in the late 1590s (478), H. W. Herrington attends to "lesser strands" <div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Herrington, H. W. “Witchcraft and Magic in the Elizabethan Drama”. ''The Journal of American Folklore''

...iss, Diane. "Witchcraft in Early Modern England," ''The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America'', ed. Brian P. Levack (OUP, 20