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&#8217;s &#8216;Discoverie of Witchcraft,&#8217; Christopher Marlowe&#8217;s &#8216;Doctor Faustus,&#8217; Edmund Spenser&#8217;s &#8216;The Faerie Queene,&#8217; and William Shakespeare&#8217;s three history plays about Henry VI.



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Episode 168: Witches, Demons and Fairies

The History of English Podcast