Inadequate Shielding

Kate Bolton Bonnici //   Inside the room someone breathes through a machine until at some point   they will be moved to a smaller room & there will be no breathing machine   & breathing will end in some version or another. (You get that this is code for   what you don’t know…

Upon the Arraignment, Condemnation, and Execution of Elizabeth Stile, 1579

Kate Bolton Bonnici // Elizabeth Stile was executed in England for witchcraft in February 1579. In what follows, I consider an anonymous “news of the day” pamphlet about her case, using critical poetry as scholarly method. (This pamphlet is part of a larger genre of 16th/17th-century writing on witchcraft trials.) I concentrate on the description…