![]() Stick with me.įrom the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. MICHAEL WITMORE: Okay, so a witch and an historian walk into a library. Previous: Acting, Emotion, and Science on Shakespeare’s Stage | Next: Harriet Walter We had technical help from Shawn Corey Campbell and Bianca Ramirez at KPCC Public Radio in Pasadena, California. This podcast episode, “Excellent Witchcraft” was produced by Richard Paul. Listen to Shakespeare Unlimited on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Soundcloud, Stitcher or NPR One.įrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Page through images from v.b.26, the 16th-century Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits, etc. from the Folger’s collection. Harkness is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. She is the author of John Dee’s Conversations with Angels and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, as well as the All Souls Trilogy, originally published by Viking Press for Penguin Books. Deborah Harkness is a teaching professor of history at the University of Southern California. We asked Harkness to join us on Shakespeare Unlimited to talk about how her research influenced her fiction writing and to tell us about how witches, demons, and the supernatural were perceived in Shakespeare’s England.ĭr. ![]() The show comes to AMC and BBC America on April 7. The novel is now a television series starring Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode. Harkness’s idea became A Discovery of Witches, the first book of her All Souls Trilogy. About fourteen years later, she had an idea for a story: a historian-who turns out to be a witch-discovers a lost and much-coveted manuscript that thrusts her into a world of vampires, demons, and magic. In 1994, Deborah Harkness was doing research at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library when she stumbled across the Book of Soyga, a long-lost manuscript treatise on magic that once belonged to Elizabethan scientist and occult philosopher John Dee.
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