Purkiss, Diane,  1961- <br/><br/>
The witch in history :  early modern and twentieth-century representations / 
Diane Purkiss. 
 - viii, 296 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  Introduction --  A Holocaust of one's own: the myth of the Burning Times --  At play in the fields of the past: modern witches --  The witch in the hands of historians: a tale of prejudice and fear --  The house, the body, the child --  No limit: the body of the witch --  Self-fashioning by women: choosing to be a witch --  Elizabethan stagings: the witch, the queen, class --  The all-singing, all-dancing plays of the Jacobean witch-vogue: The Masque of Queens, Macbeth, The Witch --  Testimony and truth: The witch of Edmonton and The Witches of Lancashire --  The witch on the margins of 'race': Sycorax and Others --  Conclusion: bread into gingerbread and the price of transformation --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415087619 9780415087612 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96011316 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Witchcraft--History.<br/>Witchcraft in literature--History<br/>Witchcraft in art--History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF1571.  / P87 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>133.4309