%0 Journal Article
%T Lancashire: a Land of Witches in Shakespeare¡¯s Time
%A Luca Baratta
%J Journal of Early Modern Studies
%D 2013
%I Firenze University Press
%X This article focuses on the connection between Shakespeare¡¯s Macbeth and the famous English witch trial which took place in Lancashire in 1612. The judicial proceeding was recorded by a clerk of the court, who went by the name of Thomas Potts, whose reportage of the events was inconsistent and unstable, as I attempt to point out. In so doing, I underline the reasons ¨C political, religious and opportunistic ¨C that possibly motivated his behaviour, highly criticisable by modern standards.
%K Authorial Intervention
%K Lancashire Witches
%K Political Context
%K Shakespeare¡¯s Macbeth
%K Trial Records
%U http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/12635