Stay at Home Shakespeare 1: Emma Whipday talks witchcraft, magic and murder in Macbeth
2 April, 2020
In: Schools, Series, Stay at Home Shakespeare
Tagged: Macbeth, Magic, Murder, Performance, Shakespeare, Stay at Home Shakespeare, Witchcraft
Shakespeare’s Macbeth draws on early modern ideas about the vulnerable home and the contagious potential of early modern witchcraft. In episode 1 of ‘Stay at Home Shakespeare’, Dr Emma Whipday explores how early modern stagecraft invited to the audience to breath the magical air of the witches’ heath, and how Shakespeare’s tragedy resonates today.
People
- Emma Whipday
- A Bit Lit host
For more on these ideas, see:
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Mary Floyd-Wilson
English Epicures and Scottish Witches
Shakespeare Quarterly 57.2
Summer 2007
131-161 -
Jonathan Gil Harris
The Smell of "Macbeth"
Shakespeare Quarterly 58.4
Winter 2007
465-486 -
Emma Whipday
Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies
2019
Introduction, Chapter 4