"Secret, black, and midnight hags" : the conception, presentation and functions of witches in English renaissance drama /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tatzl, Dietmar
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Wien : Braumüller, [2005], ©2005 Wien : Braumüller, c2005 Wien : c2005 Wien : [2005]
Series:	Austrian studies in English, v. 93 Austrian studies in English ; v. 93 Austrian studies in English v. 93 Austrian studies in English v. 93 Austrian studies in English v. 93
Subjects:	1500 - 1699 1500-1699 17th century Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 English drama > 17th century > History and criticism English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism Witchcraft in literature Witchcraft > Europe > History Women in literature English drama English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan History Witchcraft Europe Academic theses Criticism, interpretation, etc

Table of Contents:

Witchcraft in the European context : The Classical heritage
Early modern European witchcraft
Witchcraft in the twenty-first century. Malevolent witches in English Renaissance drama : Predecessors of the witch figure in sixteenth-century plays
Selected references to witchcraft in Renaissance drama
Backstage characters
Witches and supposed witches based on real-life cases
Witch figures in a legendary English setting
Witch figures developed from Classical texts
Hecate and the witches as grotesque figures in The witch
Witches in Macbeth

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