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 63: Restorations and Remedies
Episode 62: Flesh and Blood
Episode 61: Earls and Churls
Episode 60: Danes, Death and Taxes
Episode 59: Let’s Make A Deal
Episode 58: Bibliophiles and Bookworms
Episode 57: The Wessex Literary Revival
Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong
Episode 55: To Be or Not To Be
Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons
Episode 53: The End of Endings
Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal
Episode 51: Norse Words and a New English
Episode 50: A Unified Family of English Speakers
Episode 49: Vikings Among the English and French
Episode 48: The Unity of Alfred’s English
Bonus Episode 6: Beowulf Deconstructed
Episode 47: The Man Who Saved English
Episode 46: Cynewulf and the Kindred Kings
Episode 45: To Coin a Phrase – and Money
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