Magic and Gender in Early Modern England

About the Book

Magic and Gender in Early Modern England surveys the history of male and female magic in early modern England and the factors that influenced what writers include in their work regarding magic and witchcraft. The book includes the following: —Three chapters that focus on how Renaissance drama deals with contemporary issues of witchcraft and how witchcraft was used as an element to explore ideas of power and gender in early modern England —Key secondary readings by influential critics —Selected sources and analogues for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, Thomas Middleton’s The Witch, and The Witch of Edmonton by John Ford, Thomas Dekker, and William Rowley

About the Author

Dr. Shokhan Rasool Ahmed received her BA degree in English language and literature at the University of Sulaimani (2006), her MA degree in English literature, place, and identity at the University of Exeter (2009), and her PhD degree in early modern English drama at the University of Leicester (2014). She is now teaching English drama and novel in the English Department of the University of Sulaimani. She has recently written some articles on Jacobean witches on stage and has been working on her coming book.