Vile Vapours : Addiction and the Blood Pact in The Witch of Edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton has frequently been read as a play which exposes the social problems that led to witchcraft accusations in early modern society. This article examines another aspect of the play which has not yet been adequately discussed by literary scholars: the role of physiology, and especially the role of human blood, in the play’s representation of witchcraft and the devil’s manipulatio