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The Witch
''The Witch'' is a Jacobean play, a tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton. The play was acted by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre. It is thought to have been written sometime between 1609 and 1616;〔Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., ''The Popular School: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama,'' Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1975; p. 69.〕 it was not printed in its own era, and existed only in manuscript until it was published by Isaac Reed in 1778.
==The manuscript==
The still-extant manuscript (since 1821, ''MS. Malone 12'' in the collection of the Bodleian Library), a small quarto-sized bundle of 48 leaves, is in the hand of Ralph Crane,〔W. W. Greg, "Some Notes on Crane's manuscript of ''The Witch''," ''The Library,'' 4th series, Vol. 22 (1942), pp. 208–22.〕 the professional scribe who worked for the King's Men in this era, and who prepared several texts for the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, as well as two of the surviving manuscripts of Middleton's ''A Game at Chess'', plus other King's Men's works. Since Middleton wrote for the King's Men in this period, the Crane connection is unsurprising. The manuscript bears Middleton's dedication to Thomas Holmes, Esq. There, Middleton refers to the play as "ignorantly ill-fated." This was long taken to mean that the play failed with the audience, but modern critics allow the possibility that the play was pulled from performance for censorship or legal reasons.〔Nicholas Brooke, ed., ''Macbeth,'' Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990; p. 64.〕 A 21st century adaptation is available.〔https://archive.org/details/TheBloodyBanquetbewitchedByThemToDeathAdaptationsOf17thCentury〕
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