Kara McCabe

Kara McCabe's book project, titled Staged Magic, examines the ways that knowledge and belief intersect with withchcraft on the early modern English stage.  In this project, she pays particular attention to witchcraft treatises, pamphlets, and popular culture in addition to plays by Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, Thomas Dekker, and Philip Massinger.  Her other research interests include theories of disgust, the female body and sexuality, and history of the book.  Her most recent publication is an examination of Hecate's scholarship in Thomas Middleton's The Witch.