An analysis of Part 1 of our series on Witches, with Brian Weiser.

Brian Weiser is Professor of History at MSU-Denver, where he teaches world history, European history, and upper-level courses such as Renaissance and Reformation, Tudor and Stuart England, and Magic in Britain. He has published a book, Charles II and the Politics of Access, and several articles on topics such as representations of and to Charles II, shaming rituals in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, and the military revolution’s effects upon honor and absolutism. His current project is: “The Playwright, the Horsegelder and the Vicar’s Wife: Shame and Shaming in Elizabethan England." His interest in Brome and Heywood’s The Late Lancashire Witches derives partly from teaching a course on Magic in early modern Britain, and partly because the  ...