The love interest of the Hero in the English death/rebirth mummer’s play tradition. Women were prohibited from performing in public until the 18th century, so men had to play all the parts.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...