- Enseignant-e: Emily Louisa Smith
The popularity of crime fiction is not only a contemporary phenomenon. This seminar will examine how the technological affordances of the early modern period: the printing press and the commercial stage were quickly turned to feed popular fascination with those who found themselves on the wrong side of the law. We will examine a selection of broadside ballads which reported upon crime and punishment, prose texts engaging with witchcraft and its persecution, and the anonymous play 'Arden of Faversham' based on a real murder.