The History of English Podcast
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In this episode, we explore the Elizabethan fascination with witchcraft and mysterious creatures like fairies and demons. Those subjects feature prominently in the literature of the period, and they reveal a lot about the world view of the people who lived in England in the late 1500s. Among the texts analyzed in this episode are Reginald Scot’s ‘Discoverie of Witchcraft,’ Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus,’ Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene,’ and William Shakespeare’s three history plays about Henry VI.
TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 168
Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse
Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet
Episode 174: Speak and Spell
Episode 173: Fooling Around
Episode 172: Succession
Episode 171: Shakespeare’s English (featuring Ben Crystal)
Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets
Episode 169: Shakespeare Documented
Episode 167: The Rhythm of English
Bonus Episode: Rise and Fall of the Classic Movie Accent
Episode 166: The Arte of Warre
Episode 165: Glamorous Grammar
Episode 164: Somewhere in the Middle
Episode 163: An Elementary Education
Episode 162: The Pirate Queen
Episode 161: Y U and I Have a Problem
Episode 160: Approximant-ly English
Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
Episode 158: Planting Seeds
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