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**tattcasetle** · 04-25-2007, 08:42 AM

Really Janar that's interesting to know

I have been taught that many of the witches parts (Hecate and the other witches) such as their songs and the scenes in which they recall their deeds were added later due to the interest surrounding witches and stories of witches by the editor, Middleton (from his own less popular play "Witches") to the First Folio...if you do look back you can see how those parts can be cancelled out and it still does not damage the story. There is also the arugment that the witches were originally nymphes or fairies, as seen in the Globe (Theatre) Copy of Macbeth.

For a more scholarly and authoritative look into the same argument please do consult Frank Kermode's "Witches and Jesuits in Shakespeare's Macbeth" found in the London Review of Books.

04-25-2007, 08:42 AM	#22
tattcasetle Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 535 Senior Member	Really Janar that's interesting to know I have been taught that many of the witches parts (Hecate and the other witches) such as their songs and the scenes in which they recall their deeds were added later due to the interest surrounding witches and stories of witches by the editor, Middleton (from his own less popular play "Witches") to the First Folio...if you do look back you can see how those parts can be cancelled out and it still does not damage the story. There is also the arugment that the witches were originally nymphes or fairies, as seen in the Globe (Theatre) Copy of Macbeth. For a more scholarly and authoritative look into the same argument please do consult Frank Kermode's "Witches and Jesuits in Shakespeare's Macbeth" found in the London Review of Books.
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