King James and the Theatre of Witches
Author | : Dawn A. Saliba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
ISBN | : 9781303310584 |
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Author | : Dawn A. Saliba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
ISBN | : 9781303310584 |
Author | : Dawn Adrienne Saliba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9781527575561 |
This book presents a cultural analysis of King James I of Englandâ (TM)s evolving perspectives regarding witchcraft and his influence upon the â oewitch playsâ of Renaissance England. Early on during the Stuart monarch's reign in Scotland (1588-1591), James directed a fevered hunt of witches whom he believed were trying to assassinate him, an event that later came to be known as â oeThe North Berwick Affair.â He played a direct role in the interrogations, personally approving and, at times, overseeing the horrific torture of some of the accused. In 1597, the monarch also penned a compendium of witchcraft lore entitled Daemonologie, which acted as a manual for identifying, interrogating and punishing witches. Once the King ascended to the British throne, London-based dramatists endeavored to please their monarch with plays that catered to his interests while at the same time subverting his beliefs in witchcraft lore. The Kingâ (TM)s works and involvement in witchcraft trials are notably referenced, sometimes satirically, in William Shakespeareâ (TM)s Macbeth, Ben Jonsonâ (TM)s Masque of Queenes, Thomas Middletonâ (TM)s The Witch, and Dekker, Rowley and Fordâ (TM)s The Witch of Edmontonâ "all of which respond to the Kingâ (TM)s philosophical engagement with witchlore. Through the analysis of four Jacobean â oewitch-playsâ and an examination of King James's role within the witchcraft debates and his involvement with contemporaneous witch trials, this work shows how the monarchâ (TM)s various publications on witchlore transmuted stage and culture. Taken as a group, these dramas provide a window into the newly emergent humanism of the Renaissance world and its struggle with gender-driven categoriesâ "especially regarding the cultural praxis of accusing, torturing and executing â oewitches.â
Author | : William Godwin |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-12-10 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 3849641864 |
An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power. Necromancy is the art of revealing future events by a pretended communication with the dead. There is a theory that this impious superstition and imposture had its origin at a very early period in the land of Egypt, and had been thence propagated like many other arts in every nation which ancient history has made us acquainted with. Of its early existence we have complete evidence from the writings of Moses, where it is severely condemned as an abomination to the Lord. It appears to be one of the whoredoms to which Ezekiel represents his countrymen as having brought with them from Egypt, and continued to practise till they were carried captives into Babylon.
Author | : King James |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2018-05-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781720360247 |
Daemonologie-in full Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c.-was written and published in 1597 by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. This included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men while touching on topics such as werewolves and vampires. It was a political yet theological statement to educate a misinformed populace on the history, practices and implications of sorcery and the reasons for persecuting a witch in a Christian society under the rule of canonical law. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth. Shakespeare attributed many quotes and rituals found within the book directly to the Weird Sisters, yet also attributed the Scottish themes and settings referenced from the trials in which King James was involved.
Author | : King James The First |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The first text presented here, written by James I of England, is a wide-ranging discussion of witchcraft, necromancy, possession, demons, were-wolves, fairies and ghosts, in the form of a Socratic dialogue. The second text is a sensational historical account of Scottish witch persecution.
Author | : Donald Tyson |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0738729949 |
Written by King James I and published in 1597, the original edition of Demonology is widely regarded as one of the most interesting and controversial religious writings in history, yet because it is written in the language of its day, it has been notoriously difficult to understand. Now occult scholar Donald Tyson has modernized and annotated the original text, making this historically important work accessible to contemporary readers. Also deciphered here, for the first time, is the anonymous tract News from Scotland, an account of the North Berwick witch trials over which King James presided. Tyson examines King James' obsession with witches and their alleged attempts on his life, and offers a knowledgeable and sympathetic look at the details of magick and witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Demonology features historical woodcut illustrations and includes the original old English texts in their entirety. This reference work is the key to an essential source text on seventeenth-century witchcraft and the Scottish witch trials
Author | : Garry Wills |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0195102908 |
This book reinterprets Macbeth by returning it to the context of its own time, recreating the theological and political crises of Shakespeare's era.
Author | : Robert Burns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1815 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margot Heinemann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521270526 |
The closing of the theatres by Parliament in 1642 is perhaps the best-known fact in the history of English drama. As the Parliamentary Puritans were then in power, it is easy to assume that all opponents of the theatre were Puritans, and that all Puritans were hostile to the drama. The reality was more interesting and more complicated. Margot Heinemann looks at Thomas Middleton's work in relation to the society and social movements of his time, and traces the connections this work may have had with radical, Parliamentarian or Puritan groups or movements. In the light of the recent work of seventeenth-century historians we can no longer see these complex opposition movements as uniformly anti-theatre or anti-dramatist. The book suggests fresh meanings and implications in Middleton's own writings, and helps towards rethinking the place of drama in the changing life of early Stuart England.
Author | : Richard Brome |
Publisher | : Theatre Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
In this ribald comedy, first performed at The Globe in 1634, everything is going wrong at a wedding, and everyone in attendance is eager to believe a local coven is to blame.