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Article: Witchcraft, flight and the early modern English stage.
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Witchcraft, flight and the early modern English stage
Roy Booth
Royal Holloway University of London
roy.booth@btinternet.com
Roy Booth. "Witchcraft, flight and the early modern English stage". Early Modern Literary Studies 13.1 (May, 2007) 3.1-37
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This is a discussion of something that never happened, in relation to a form of theatre that was only minimally capable of representing that factually non-existent event. That witches physically flew was insistently argued by some demonologists, and as this was a seductive fantasy, the theatres (those places where time and distance can be made to obey the dictates of imagination) ...