Hello and welcome to Ripe Good Scholar, spooky edition. Since it’s Halloween, let’s explore a topic that would have been all too familiar to the Shakespearean audience: witches. King James in particular was very anti-witch and led some of the most brutal witch hunts in history. Today Dr. Lisa Grogan and I are going to explore the history of witchcraft and witch hunts, specifically focusing on the time of King James. Lisa is familiar with the history of witchcraft because she identifies as a witch and follows the wiccan religion. Join us as we explore what it was to be a witch and how the perception of witches changed over time
For this episode we watched a documentary on the Malleus Maleficarum and looked over King James’ Daemonologie. If you want to check out those and so much more, head over to ripegoodscholar.com/ep45.
Teller of Tales by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-tales
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Oppressive Gloom by KevinMacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4174-oppressive-gloom
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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George Peele and Titus Andronicus
The Sources for Twelfth Night
Eleanor Cobham Witch Trial
Venus, Adonis, and Ovid
A Groatsworth of Wit
Shakespeare in Colonial America
Leontes’ Paranoia
City Comedies
Folklore Cymbeline
The Analyzing of a Shrew
Restoration Rewrites
Darkness Representing Evil
The Norse Origins of Hamlet
King Lear’s Need to Be Loved
The Creation of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Queen Elizabeth and the Fairy Court
Jewish People in Elizabethan England
Romeo & Juliet Source Material
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