id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt qj72p557r1m Lau Ortiz Mercado Double Trouble: Queering and Disrupting Genre Conventions through Witches in Early Modern Drama 2021 .txt text/plain 269 10 41 This dissertation argues that the presence of witches on the stage was an integral part of early modern English theatre that helped shape the conventions of different genres and transform theatre itself. Performing incantations, ritualistic spells, and making people and objects fly, among other things, allowed playwrights and theatre companies to exploit theatrical mechanisms and push the limits of the theatre, providing awe-inducing scenes for their audiences. cache/qj72p557r1m.txt txt/qj72p557r1m.txt