Sunday, June 23, 2019

Salem Witch Trials: Literature, Media and Popular Culture



Stories of witchcraft accusations, trials and executions have captured writers’ and artists’ imaginations in the centuries since the events took place.  Many interpretations have taken liberties with the facts of the historical episode in the name of literary and/or artistic license.  As the trials took place between the gradually disappearing medieval past and the emerging enlightenment, some interpretations draw attention to the boundaries between medieval and post-medieval as cultural constructions.

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