Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Theatre Guild Valdosta presents Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 13-15; 2 p.m.

Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local schoolmaster. Like Gillis Duncan they were both tortured, with Sampson having her ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

The town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the village actually has a rather dark history.

While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to ...

From Agatha to Elphaba, it's been a season of witches on film and television. But whatever charms witches conjure in the narratives that entertain us, the MUBI documentary "Witches" shows how ...

It is true that the Franco-Spanish border was frequently in dispute into the early modern period, before it was finally ... The latter was common in early-modern witch-hunts: the key witness in the ...

It's truly a new era in the franchise ... a game said to explore Europe's infamous witch trials from Ubisoft Montreal – with development led by Clint Hocking, the creative director of Splinter ...

"For me, the 1950s is one of the great peaks of American theatre – mainly because of how real and gritty it felt. The stories were not pretentious, they spoke in clear language about real situations ...