TY - BOOK AU - Purkiss,Diane TI - The witch in history: early modern and twentieth-century representations SN - 0415087619 AV - BF1571. P87 1996 U1 - 133.4309 PY - 1996/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Witchcraft KW - History KW - Witchcraft in literature KW - Witchcraft in art N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1; A Holocaust of one's own: the myth of the Burning Times --; 2; At play in the fields of the past: modern witches --; 3; The witch in the hands of historians: a tale of prejudice and fear --; 4; The house, the body, the child --; 5; No limit: the body of the witch --; 6; Self-fashioning by women: choosing to be a witch --; 7; Elizabethan stagings: the witch, the queen, class --; 8; The all-singing, all-dancing plays of the Jacobean witch-vogue: The Masque of Queens, Macbeth, The Witch --; 9; Testimony and truth: The witch of Edmonton and The Witches of Lancashire --; 10; The witch on the margins of 'race': Sycorax and Others --; Conclusion: bread into gingerbread and the price of transformation --; Index ER -