ABSTRACT
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer
'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
part Part I|84 pages
The Histories of Witchcraft
part Part II|88 pages
Early Modern Women's Stories of Witchcraft
part Part III|100 pages
Witches on Stage
chapter 8|32 pages
The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue
The Masque of Queens, Macbeth, the Witch
