Jane Wenham The Witch Of Walkern

Author : Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571329306
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walkern, 1712. England has been free from witch-hunts for decades until Jane Wenham is blamed for a tragic death and charged with witchcraft. A terrifying ordeal begins, as the village is torn between those who want to save Jane's life and those who claim they want to save her soul. Inspired by events in a Hertfordshire village, the play explores sex and society's hunger to find and create witches. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern premiered at Watford Palace Theatre before going on UK tour in September 2015, in an Out of Joint, Watford Palace Theatre and Arcola Theatre co-production, in association with Eastern Angles.

Author : Jane WENHAM
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Full and Impartial Account of the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft written by Jane WENHAM and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571327737
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world where the Stephen Lawrence Case and the Hillsborough Disaster never made it to court. Since 2012 the government has made sweeping cuts to the provision of legal aid. In this new reality, in cases from civil law to immigration, the voices of those seeking justice are in danger of never being heard. The Invisible tells the stories of ordinary people whose access to legal aid has been denied, examining how the cuts are driving ever deeper cracks into the fabric of our society. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Invisible was commissioned by the Bush Theatre, London, where it premiered in July 2015.

Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 written by Wallace Notestein and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Swanston
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1800322534
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Star & Other Stories written by Andrew Swanston and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary people are swept up in extraordinary historical events in these gripping short stories by the bestselling author of The King’s Spy. History is brought alive by the everyday people whose lives it affects in this moving collection of short fiction. In Beautiful Star & Other Stories we meet Eilmer, a monk in 1010 with Icarus-like dreams; Charles I, in hiding in 1651 and befriended by a small boy; the trial of Jane Wenham, witch of Walkern, seen through the eyes of her granddaughter, among many others. From the author of the Thomas Hill trilogy, this is an affecting journey through the centuries, bringing a new perspective to such events as the defense of Corfe Castle, the battle of Waterloo, the siege of Toulon, and, in the title story, the devastating dangers of the life of the sea in 1875.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil in Britain and America written by John Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571319106
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Naked Skin written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive. Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Amongst them is Lady Celia Cain who feels trapped by both the policies of the day and the shackles of a frustrating marriage. Inside, she meets a young seamstress, Eve Douglas, and her life spirals into an erotic but dangerous chaos. London 1913. A crucial moment when, with emancipation almost in sight, women refuse to let the establishment stand in their way. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked Skin premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2008.

Author : Bernard Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happy Birthday Dear Alice written by Bernard Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of two plays by Bernard Farrell: Happy Birthday Dear Alice and Stella By Starlight (which won the Best Irish Production award during the 1996 Dublin Theatre Festival). Bernard Farrell is the author of another collection, The Last Apache Reunion / Forty-four Sycamore.

Author : Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571318681
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night Season written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent. Psalm 22Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, a film actor playing the poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs. He is met by the grandmother and they dance together to 'Lili Marlene'. In the morning they are discovered, sharing a blanket, by Patrick and his three daughters. Patrick craves tobacco, whiskey and a date with the local barmaid; the sisters yearn for sensation and escape.A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love and loss, The Night Season premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004.

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243588
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decline of Magic written by Michael Hunter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.