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The Witch

Thomas Middleton
Chapters (43)
  1. Cover Page
  2. The Witch
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. FURTHER READING
  7. The Witch
  8. [DRAMATIS PERSONAE]
  9. THE WITCH
  10. [Act I,] Scene ii
  11. Act II, Scene i
  12. [Act II,] Scene ii
  13. [Act II,] Scene iii
  14. Act III, Scene i
  15. [Act III,] Scene ii
  16. [Act III,] Scene iii
  17. Act IV, Scene i
  18. [Act IV,] Scene ii
  19. [Act IV,] Scene iii
  20. Act V, Scene i
  21. [Act V,] Scene ii
  22. [Act V,] Scene iii
  23. APPENDIX
  24. In a maiden time profess’d
  25. Come Away, Hecate!
  26. Notes
  27. Thomas Holmes, Esquire
  28. Act I, Scene i
  29. [Act I,] Scene ii
  30. Act II, Scene i
  31. [Act II,] Scene ii
  32. [Act II,] Scene iii
  33. Act III, Scene i
  34. [Act III,] Scene ii
  35. [Act III,] Scene iii
  36. Act IV, Scene i
  37. [Act IV,] Scene ii
  38. Act IV Scene iii
  39. Act V, Scene i
  40. [Act V,] Scene ii
  41. [Act V,] Scene iii
  42. Appendix
  43. Footnotes

Cover Page

The Witch

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THE NEW MERMAIDS

General Editor: Brian Gibbons
Professor of English Literature, University of Münster

THE NEW MERMAIDS

The Alchemist

All for Love

Arden of Faversham

The Atheist’s Tragedy

Bartholmew Fair

The Beaux’ Stratagem

The Broken Heart

Bussy D’Ambois

The Changeling

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

The Country Wife

The Critic

The Devil’s Law-Case

The Double-Dealer

Dr Faustus

The Duchess of Malfi

Eastward Ho!

Edward the Second

Epicoene or The Silent Woman

Every Man in His Humour

A Fair Quarrel

An Ideal Husband

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Jew of Malta

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Lady Windermere’s Fan

London Assurance

Love for Love

The Malcontent

The Man of Mode

Marriage A-la-Mode

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

The Plain Dealer

The Playboy of the Western World

The Provoked Wife

The Recruiting Officer

The Relapse

The Revenger’s Tragedy

The Rivals

The School for Scandal

She Stoops to Conquer

The Shoemaker’s Holiday

The Spanish Tragedy

Tamburlaine

Three Late Medieval Morality Plays

Mankind

Everyman

Mundus et Infans

Thyestes

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Volpone

The Way of the World

The White Devil

The Witch

A Woman Killed with Kindness

A Woman of No Importance

Women Beware Women

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Portrait of Thomas Middleton from Dyce Collection 25 E 46 reproduced by courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the V & A

The Witch

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THOMAS MIDDLETON

Edited by
ELIZABETH SCHAFER

Royal Holloway, University of London

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Richard Allen Cave, Richard Proudfoot, Ian Spink, David Ward and the general editor, Brian Gibbons, for comments and suggestions, and to William C. Carroll for his article on the author.

ABBREVIATIONS

Editions of the play cited

Revels Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays, ed. Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge, Revels Plays Companion Library (1986)
Dyce The Works of Thomas Middleton, ed. A. Dyce (1840)

Periodicals and reference works

Chambers E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage (1923)
Grove The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie (1980)
Masque of Queens Ben Jonson, Masque of Queens, ed. C. H. Herford, Percy and Evelyn Simpson, vol. 7 (1941)
NQ Notes and Queries
OED Oxford English Dictionary
Scot Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft, reprint of the 1584 edition (1973)
Tilley M. P. Tilley, A Dictionary of Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1950)

Works by Middleton

CM A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. All references to the works of Middleton are to A. H. Bullen’s 8-volume edition (1885).
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s.h. speech heading

Shakespeare references are to The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (1974).

INTRODUCTION

THE AUTHOR