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Long, Yanghuan, and Chen Fan. "Belief in Drama: A Study of the Religious Factors in Ancient Chinese Puppet Dramas." Religions 14, no. 7 (June 29, 2023): 857. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14070857.

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Puppets, a kind of wooden figure whose movements are manipulated by artists, were frequently used in ancient Chinese singing and dancing activities and dramas. The uniqueness of substituting human beings for puppets has drawn tremendous attention from scholars. However, despite previous research on the long development process of puppet dramas, a considerable number of details remain neglected, and behind these details lies an abundance of complicated religious factors. Therefore, this paper uses several fragments as entry points in terms of puppet dramas’ modeling, materials, craft, rites, function, artists, organization, and other aspects to comprehensively analyze the influence of witchcraft, Daoism, and Buddhism on China’s puppet dramas. This research first unveils that a ferocious appearance and mahogany as a material, both used in puppets, are outer manifestations to reveal the magical power of witchcraft. Next, the rites performed in Li Yuan Jiao using ritual puppets were characterized by mystery in their implication and ambiguity in their religious sect, which was related to the attempt to hide their notorious identities as wizards on the part of the artists. Third, general puppet artists enjoyed a fairly high social status, conferred by their semi-religionist identity and the puppet dramas’ historical status. Finally, the improvement in the puppet-making process and the emergence of skeleton-style puppets embody the secularization of the spread of Buddhism.
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Barker, Simon. "Scepticism and Belief in English Witchcraft Drama, 1538–1681." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 33, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2021): 143–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0143.

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Schiltz, Marc. "A YORUBA TALE OF MARRIAGE, MAGIC, MISOGYNY AND LOVE." Journal of Religion in Africa 32, no. 3 (2002): 335–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006602760599944.

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AbstractIn this paper I approach the efflorescence of witchcraft-sorcery concerns in post-colonial Africa through the personal experiences of Délé, a Nigerian friend and research assistant. At one level, the witchcraft-sorcery incidents offer illustrations of the rural-urban conflict situations that the Comaroffs and other Africanists have written about in recent years. Yet at another level I read Délé's texts for what they are, the chronicles of a real-life drama in which he plays the tragic hero's role. As a storyteller, Délé recalls events in which the actors' virtues, vices, and emotions constantly mirror our own experiences of what people can turn out to be as they progress through life. In Délé's case I perceive such a progression in his shift from a virtue-centred Catholic upbringing in rural Ìséyìn to a more prayer/power-centred aládúrà-Pentecostalism in Lagos, when recently the spectres of mágùn sorcery and witchcraft began to close in on his marriage, livelihood and health. Délé's tale compels me, as a friend and correspondent with a different view of the world, to reconsider the morally universalising aspects of what it entails to be human. I attempt this from the triple perspective of Délé's ancestral roots in traditional Yoruba religion, his attraction towards aládúrà-Pentecostalism in a failed nation-state, and his nostalgia for the missionary Catholicism through which our friendship first developed.
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Odi, Christine. "Concept of Witchcraft in African Drama and Negative Female Stereotyping in Select Nigerian Plays." AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 5, no. 1 (February 9, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v5i1.1.

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DeWindt, Anne Reiber. "Witchcraft and Conflicting Visions of the Ideal Village Community." Journal of British Studies 34, no. 4 (October 1995): 427–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386086.

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In the fallen world, communities (patterns of interaction) are endlessly dying and being born. The historian's job is to specify what, at a given moment, is changing into or being annihilated by what.In the fall of 1589, ten-year-old Jane Throckmorton pointed to the old woman who had settled into a seat in her family's cavernous stone hearth and cried out, “Looke where the old witch sitteth … did you ever see … one more like a witch then she is?” With those words the child set in motion a four-year-long drama that culminated in the hanging of three of her neighbors from their fenland village of Warboys in north Huntingdonshire. Within weeks after the executions, Jane's father and uncle, with the help of a trial judge and the local parson, published their version of this tragic story in a pamphlet that now resides in the British Library.After Jane Throckmorton and her sisters had shared symptoms such as violent sneezing and grotesque seizures for several weeks, and two medical doctors at Cambridge had suggested the possibility of witchcraft, Gilbert Pickering—a relative from Northamptonshire—arrived at the Warboys manor house to conduct numerous experiments with Jane and her neighbor, Alice Samuel. His intention was to demonstrate that the old woman was the cause of the girl's symptoms. In February 1590 one of the sisters was taken to the Pickering home in Northamptonshire where the results of further experiments were recorded for eventual inclusion in the pamphlet.
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Lara Alberola, Eva. "La brujería en la narrativa histórica española contemporánea (desde 1970 hasta la actualidad)." Revista de Humanidades, no. 37 (July 17, 2019): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/rdh.37.2019.21206.

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Resumen: En el presente artículo nos proponemos dar un paso más en la indagación sobre la brujería en la literatura hispánica, abordando en esta ocasión la narrativa histórica española desde 1970 hasta nuestros días. Las novelas seleccionadas han sido Retrato de una bruja de Luis de Castresana; La herbolera de Toti Martínez de Lezea; Ars Magica de Nerea Riesco; Las maléficas de Mikel Azurmendi y Regreso a tu piel de Lus Gabás. En un trabajo en gran parte descriptivo, se presentarán estos cinco relatos, resaltando los aspectos más llamativos que tratan sobre la brujería y las tesis que se vierten sobre este fenómeno y sobre la caza de brujas. Por tanto, se facilita al lector una panorámica acerca de los textos que ahondan en esta temática y se muestra que, en la actualidad, sigue muy vigente el interés por estas prácticas y su persecución, debido a lo complejo y controvertido del asunto y al drama que se vivió en los siglos XV, XVI y XVII, y que estos escritores han querido reflejar.Abstract: This article attempts to take a further step towards the investigation of witchcraft in Hispanic literature, now dealing with the Spanish historical narrative from 1970 to the present day. The novels that have been selected for such purpose are Luis de Castresana’s Retrato de una bruja, Toti Martinez de Lezea’s La herbolera, Nerea Riesco’s Ars Magica, Mikel Azurmendi ‘s Las maléficas and Luz Gabás’ Regreso a tu piel. In this article, which is mainly descriptive, these four stories will be presented highlighting the most remarkable aspects dealing with witchcraft together with the theses given about this phenomenon and the witch hunt. Therefore, the reader is offered an overview of the texts that delve into this subject and shows that, today, the interest in these practices and their prosecution is still alive not only thanks to the complexity and controversy of this matter, but also due to the tragic events that took place in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, which these writers have tried to reflect in their books.
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Herzig, Tamar. "The Hazards of Conversion: Nuns, Jews, and Demons in Late Renaissance Italy." Church History 85, no. 3 (September 2016): 468–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640716000445.

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Female monasticism and the conversion of the Jews were both major concerns for the ecclesiastical establishment, as well as for Italian ruling elites, after the Council of Trent (1545–1563). Hence, the monachization of baptized Jewish girls acquired a unique symbolic significance. Moreover, during this period cases of demonic possession were on the rise, and so were witchcraft accusations. This article explores a case from late sixteenth-century Mantua in which Jewish conversion, female monachization, demonic possession and witch-hunting all came into play in a violent drama. Drawing on unpublished documents as well as on chronicles and hagiographies, the article elucidates the mental toll that conversion and monachization took on the Jewess Luina, who later became known as Sister Margherita. It delineates her life, which culminated with her diagnosis as a demoniac, and analyzes the significance that this etiology held for the energumen—whose affliction was attributed to her ongoing contacts with Jews—and for Mantua's Jews. The article argues that the anxiety provoked by suspicions that a formerly Jewish nun reverted to Judaism was so profound, that it led to the burning at the stake of Judith Franchetta, the only Jew ever to be executed as a witch in the Italian peninsula.
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Teber, Sena. "From Womb to Words: Unveiling the Changing Understanding of Hysteria." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6, no. 2 (May 6, 2024): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1590.

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In ancient periods, there was the tendency to label a woman as mad or hysteric if she behaved in a strange manner. The reason was that, since at those times women were considered to be inferior creatures, their bodies were thought to be degraded easily. Accordingly, in the medieval period, hysteria was linked to distress in the womb, which would affect the whole body easily. In that sense, in this period hysteria was only associated with women. Especially ancient Greeks believed that hysteria occurred due to not having enough sex or orgasms. Therefore, according to them the cure for this ailment was getting married and having a satisfying sexual life. However, in the dark Middle Ages, hysteria started to be related to witchcraft, rather than sexual dissatisfaction. It was still linked to women only, but this time they were believed to be possessed by the Devil if they showed any disturbances or symptoms of hysteria. With the developments in science and technology, the understanding of hysteria changed from being associated with unfulfilled sexual drives or spirit possession to being a result of having psychological scars due to mental traumas or repressions. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to reflect the changing understanding of hysteria through female characters from 20th century American drama.
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Wiesner-Hanks, Merry. "Traditional Orthodoxies and New Approaches: An Editor's Perspective on the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation." Church History 67, no. 1 (March 1998): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3170773.

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Before I begin to offer my analysis of what the Encyclopedia of the Reformation tells us about Reformation studies, I should first explain my role in its production. I have been one of six senior editors, responsible for what was loosely termed “social history and popular religion.” Four of the other editors have been in charge of specific geographic areas, and David Steinmetz has been in charge of theology, so I have generally thought of my role as the editor for “other.” That meant “my” articles began with “alchemy” and ended with “women,” including in between entries on such topics as capitalism, death, divorce, drama, Jews, miracles, music, polygamy, printing, science, sexuality, and time. I was in charge of fewer entries than most of my coeditors–102 out of 1200–but more words, as I ended up with nearly all the longest articles. That alone, I think, indicates the clear acceptance of one “new approach,” an approach picked up by the marketing department at Oxford, whose banner head describes the Encyclopedia as “the definitive reference on society in early modern Europe.” It was also noted at a very early editors' meeting, where one of the consulting editors commented—not exactly with dismay, but not exactly with triumph either—“do you realize we've given witchcraft more words than Luther?”
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Ahmed Al-Azzawy, Qusay Jaddoa. "The Concept of Death in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Arthur Miller's The Crucible." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 8, no. 6 (June 30, 2024): 114–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/lang.8.6.7.

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This paper aims to examine the concept of “death” in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Arthur Miller's The Crucible in an analytical method as these two plays are filled with murder, executions, and assassinations. These plays show the subject of death in classical and modern drama by the two famous playwrights. The paper is divided into two parts: the first part tackles Shakespeare's Macbeth in (1606) and how the idea of death occupies a great place as the hero falls dead in the end. The second discusses Miller's The Crucible and the tragic events that put to death many people, fearing to spread the thoughts of communists in America. It also reveals people who are hung, crushed, and stifled by society powers, which filled its citizens' minds with certain myths, witchcraft and superstitions that may be against ethics and honor. The concept of “death” will be analyzed in two methods, the first one is a symbolic, spiritual, method while the second is a physical method. These two methods will examine the main characters. The death is the main feature that includes the heroes of selected plays to achieve nobility and perception. Consequently, this paper attempts to show how the dramatists succeed in providing a moral and human lesson to readers around the world, as well as changing this terrible truth of murder into something highly meaningful that it is a step towards the eternal life.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Witchcraft – Drama"

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Yilmaz, Turkan <1989&gt. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WITCHCRAFT AND FEMININITY: WITCHCRAFT AS A SEX-SPECIFIC CRIME WITCHCRAFT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/5957.

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ABSTRACT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WITCHCRAFT AND FEMININITY:WITCHCRAFT AS A SEX SPECIFIC CRIME WITCHCRAFT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA Yilmaz, Turkan M.A., Department of Literature Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura TOSI February, 2015 The present thesis is an attempt to understand the close relationship between femininity and witchcraft in early modern English society, and to analyze the religious, sociohistorical, and cultural reasons for that association. Then, I aim to present how witchcraft material is approached by the contemporary English dramatists. With this aim, the first chapter consists of four subchapters each of which includes the explanation of four different reasons for the strong association of witchcraft with femininity. The second chapter includes comparative analysis of three plays; namely The Witch by Thomas Middleton, The Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford, and Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Accordingly, how witchcraft theme is interpreted and incorporated in the corpora of those plays and the function of witch scenes constitute the main concern of the second chapter. Through analyzing the possible reasons for the clear link between femininity and witchcraft, and discussing the interpretation of witchcraft theme in the plays from early modern English drama, this research highlights how witchcraft and witch-beliefs serve as a material for playwrights to criticize idealization of femininity.
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Woods, Katherine. "Witchcraft plays 1587-1635 : a psychoanalytical approach." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12317.

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This thesis comprises detailed readings of nine early-modern plays featuring female witches in an attempt to recover an understanding of how they were represented on the early-modern stage and what they meant to their first audiences. Drawing on twentieth-century theories of subjectivity, it offers an avenue for the explanation of moments of misogyny in the plays and identifies an unconscious communal anxiety which was revealed and perpetuated by the stage representation of the witch. Although we cannot fully recapture the experience of an audience of 400 years ago, this study attempts to do so in order to place the plays in the context of anxieties detectable in the period. By reading the plays in reference to theatrical conditions, this thesis identifies moments when the drama enlisted the subjectivity of the audience and the witch was constructed as uncanny. Such an approach contributes to the debate on the ages of actors performing certain female characters and suggests potential staging approaches for future performances.
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Coleman, Alex. "Foul Witches and Feminine Power: Gendered Representations of Witchcraft in the Works of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1562624942402741.

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Magotra, Corrinne. "Salem witchcraft in American drama." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/23834.

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Wang, Wei-Tzu, and 王維資. "The psychological drama of witchcraft delusion in historical context of early-modern: cases studying in Tudor and Stuart England." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94318829026954241484.

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Munzhedzi, Mutshinyani Jane. "Masiandoitwa ane a diswa nga u tenda kha vhuloi kha Vhavenda, nga maanda ho sedzwa litambwa la Vho Mahamba la 'Zwo Itwa' la Vho Milubi la 'Mukosi wa lufu' na la Vho Mathivha la 'Mabalanganye'." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1054.

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Gani, Safiyyah. "The fortifying and destructive power of love in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5304.

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The aim of this study is to explore the importance of love in its various manifestations in the lives of the Harry Potter characters and its power to consequently influence the paths that they eventually choose to walk. Love is investigated as the reason behind the choice between good and evil as well as paradoxically both a fortifying as well as a destructive force. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the importance that love plays in the healthy or dysfunctional development of the characters. Numerous philosophies and theories that span two different eras will form the theoretical framework of this research paper. There will be a constant interplay between the theories and the main text, that is, the seven Harry Potter books that together represent the Harry Potter series. Additionally, the author‟s opinion acquired from invaluable fan interviews will be utilized in order to improve the understanding of the characters motivations. The introduction is a brief explanation of key terms and theories that are essential to the exploration of love in the Harry Potter series. The study comprises five chapters. The first three chapters are concerned with the three main manifestations of love represented in the series, namely; parental love, friendship and romance respectively. Chapter Four focuses on the adaptation of the novels into movies and the subsequent result that this has on the depiction of love. Chapter Five highlights the finding of the study conducted.
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Books on the topic "Witchcraft – Drama"

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Särman, Marianne. Charlotta Taube och den sista häxprocessen: Ett 1700-tals drama i flera akter. Stockholm: Carlsson, 1996.

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Pudney, Eric. Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538–1681. Lund: Lund University Press, 2019.

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Middleton, Thomas. A critical edition of Thomas Middleton's The witch. New York: Garland Pub., 1993.

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Bailey, Slagle Judith, ed. Thomas Shadwell's The Lancashire-witches, and Tegue o Divelly the Irish-priest: A critical old-spelling edition. New York: Garland Pub., 1991.

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Thomas, Dekker. The witch of Edmonton. Gloucester, England]: Dodo Press, 2009.

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Zortman, Bruce. Witch hammer, the malleus maleficarum: A cruel comedy. El Paso, Tex: Firestein Books, 1991.

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Brome, Richard. The witches of Lancashire. New York: Routledge, 2003.

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Major, Melissa. Sapphire butterfly blue. Toronto, ON: Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2011.

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Erdmann, Silke. Dämonen, Hexen, erschreckende Zufälle: Aspekte des Phantastischen im lyrischen Drama des fin de siècle. Marburg: Tectum, 2005.

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Benvenuti, Paolo. Gostanza da Libbiano: Dal documento al film. Pisa: ETS, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Witchcraft – Drama"

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Willis, Deborah. "Magic and Witchcraft." In A New Companion to Renaissance Drama, 170–81. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118824016.ch13.

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Beckwith, Sarah. "The power of devils and the hearts of men: notes towards a drama of witchcraft." In Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum, 143–61. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003352990-8.

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Pudney, Eric. "Witchcraft in Jacobean drama." In Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538–1681. Lund University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9789198376876.00008.

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Pudney, Eric. "Witchcraft in Elizabethan drama." In Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538–1681. Lund University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9789198376876.00007.

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"Seneca: the witch in classical drama." In The Witchcraft Sourcebook, 335–38. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203455548-72.

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"Thomas Middleton: the witch in English drama, 1613." In The Witchcraft Sourcebook, 343–48. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203455548-74.

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"Hans Wiers-Jenssen: a Norwegian witchcraft drama, 1917." In The Witchcraft Sourcebook, 349–58. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203455548-75.

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Machielsen, Jan. "Historical Drama." In Martin Delrio. British Academy, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265802.003.0008.

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This chapter moves beyond Martin Delrio’s emendations to study his wide-ranging commentary on other aspects of classical culture. Senecan tragedy, and in particular the Medea and the Oedipus, offered the Jesuit the opportunity to discuss witchcraft and practices of divination in great detail. This chapter argues that Delrio took these tragedies to have a historical core; without some basis in history the plays would lose their moral significance. It also suggests that Delrio’s comments should be read as not only explicating individual lines, but as constructing a reading of the plays in which praise and blame were apportioned. As a result, the tragedies did not carry the same moral meaning for Delrio that they have for us today.
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Pudney, Eric. "Witchcraft in the Restoration." In Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538–1681. Lund University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9789198376876.00011.

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"Early Modern England’s Belief in Fictional Witchcraft." In Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture, 55–78. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.4256588.7.

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