Fool's Harbour

Back in March 2025 I promised to blog about the three witch-themed plays I was reading. It's now March 2026, and I'm finally ready to deliver. Albeit in a struggling manner, as I can now barely remember the first one, and have barely a better sense of the second. Consequently, I'll largely just be sharing some passages from the plays that amused me. (You can see by the battered corners it's been an epic undertaking) The plays were: The Witch (1616) - Thomas Middleton The Witch of Edmonton (1621) - William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford The Late Lancashire Witches (1634) - Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome The first, The Witch , was probably the most serious in tone (and best executed). It was also probably the one that I enjoyed the least though. The other two being so unbelievably sitcom-like it was hard not to find greater entertainment. The second, The Witch of Edmonton , featured a talking dog ! The familiar of Mother Sawyer, the witch. And the third play, The Late La...