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The Witch of Edmonton Information
1,026 words, approx. 3 pages
 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"[1]—is...


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 Comparative Drama
Interrogating the devil: social and demonic pressure in The Witch of Edmonton.
12/22/2004: 8,774 words, approx. 29 pages In its tale of witchcraft, murder, and bigamy, Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton (1621) powerfully dramatizes both social and demonic forces operating within a small rural community. Although a number of recent studies have discussed the play's...
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Critical Essay by Viviana Comensoli
7,598 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Comensoli argues that The Witch of Edmonton, attributed to Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford, was inspired by the execution of an English woman the same year the play was written and that the dramatists wanted to show that social ills, not demonology, were behind her trial and conviction.


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