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...quite legitimately placed his characters in the time of James I. In choosing a tale from Scottish history, Shakespeare was paying tribute to King James, himself a Scotsman; and in giving such a major role to the supernatural, he was honoring not only a king deeply interested in witch-craft but one who had himself recently written a treatise entitled Daemonologie...
...whirl in Iris Murdoch's latest witch dance, one of her characters stammers: "I didn't know ordinary educated middle-class English people could behave the way we behaved...
...years to draft a new code, he suspended all existing laws and authorized the people's committees to proceed on an ad hoc basis, governed only by "the full precepts of justice, the commandments of Islam and the interests of the people." The committees have gone on a witch-hunting, book-burning binge, aimed at restoring Libya to Islamic purity...
Every attempt at reform throughout history has been opposed by organized religion. When is the human race going to grow up and renounce its witch doctors, both modern and primitive...
Early on in the first act, this season's femme fatale, a witch named Helza Poppins, starts casting spells on a Greek shipping magnate (Pluto Cratopoulos), a Canadian Mountie (Major Assburn) and his troops, Assburn's liberated-bopper of a charge (Mary Wanna), a hefty schoolmarm (Hortense Prune) and her maidens, One-Eyed Jack and his faithful Indian Toronto, two refugees from the frontiers of the 1840s. While they're all stomping around in Helza's "enchanted forest," Strong's unflattering imitations of Shakespearean romance require that they fall in love with each other in various un-lovely combinations until...