The Witch (Middleton)

The Witch, scilicet "Malefica", est ludus scaenicus, genere tragicomoedia, a Thoma Middleton inter annos 1609 et 1616 scriptus. Circiter hoc anno a Servis Regiis apud Theatrum Blackfriars doctus, iussu Isaacii Reed anno 1778 divulgatus est. Ludus historiam praebet, sed nominibus mutatis, Alboini regis Langobardorum, qui anno fere 572/573 ab uxore Rosamunda et sectatore Helmiche necatus est; quam historiam, iam diu Latine in Pauli Diaconi Historia gentis Langobardorum recentiusque in Nicolai Maclavelli Historiis Florentinis exscriptam, auctor in Histoires tragiques Francisci de Belleforest ut videtur perlegit.

Carmina maleficarum duo, a Middleton composita et in hoc ludo a principio comprehensa, anno 1623 in textu Macbeth Shakesperiano inserta sunt, "Come away" et "Black spirits".

Nexus externi

The Witch: editio interretialis

Bibliographia

A. A. Bromham, "The Date of The Witch and the Essex Divorce Case" in Notes and Queries vol. 225 (1980) pp. 149-52
Marion Gibson, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550–1750 (Ithacae: Cornell University Press, 2003) pp. 97-98
W. W. Greg, "Some Notes on Crane's manuscript of The Witch" in The Library 4a ser. vol. 22 (1942) pp. 208-222

The Witch : Index personarum

Dux • Ravennatis praefectus • Sebastian, Isabellae sponsus • Fernando, huius amicus • Antonio, Isabellae maritus • Aberzanes, ingenuus • Almachildes, ingenuus • Gasparo et Hermio, Antonii servi • Firestone, scurrus, Hecatae filius • Servi etc.
Ducissa • Isabella, praefecti neptis • Francisca, Antonii soror • Amoretta, ducis serva • Florida, scorta • Hecate, Stadlin, Hoppo, maleficae • Aliae maleficae etc.

Opera Thomae Middleton

	Thomas Middleton
Ludi scaenici: The Phoenix • The Honest Whore, part I • Michaelmas Term • A Trick to Catch the Old One • A Mad World, My Masters • A Yorkshire Tragedy • The Puritan • The Revenger's Tragedy • Your Five Gallants • The Bloody Banquet • The Roaring Girl • No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's • The Second Maiden's Tragedy • A Chaste Maid in Cheapside • Wit at Several Weapons • More Dissemblers Besides Women • The Widow • The Witch • A Fair Quarrel • The Old Law • The Mayor of Queenborough • Women Beware Women • Anything for a Quiet Life • The Changeling • The Nice Valour • The Spanish Gypsy • A Game at Chess

Scriptores scaenici Anglici: aevum litterarum renascentium

	Theatrum Globe restitutum
Franciscus Beaumont · Gulielmus Berkeley · Richard Brome · Ludovicus Carlell · Gulielmus Cartwright · Georgius Chapman · Henricus Chettle · Robertus Daborne · Gulielmus Davenant · Robertus Davenport · Ioannes Day · Thomas Dekker · Ricardus Edwardes · Nathan Field · Ioannes Fletcher · Ioannes Ford · Robertus Greene · Ricardus Hathwaye · Gulielmus Haughton · Ioannes Heywood · Thomas Heywood · Beniaminus Jonson · Thomas Killigrew · Thomas Kyd · Thomas Lodge · Ioannes Lyly · Gervasius Markham · Christophorus Marlowe · Shackerley Marmion · Ioannes Marston · Philippus Massinger · Thomas May · Thomas Middleton · Antonius Munday · Thomas Nabbes · Thomas Nashe · Georgius Peele · Samuel Rowley · Gulielmus Rowley · Gulielmus Shakesperius · Iacobus Shirley · Wentworth Smith · Ioannes Suckling · Thomas Tomkis · Cyrillus Tourneur · Ioannes Webster · Georgius Wilkins · Arthurus Wilson · Robertus Wilson