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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(4):370-384; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqm063
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© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

Bewitching Politics and Unruly Performances: Mother Shipton Gets her Kicks in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Popular and Print Culture

Laura McGrane

Department of English
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford
PA 19041
USA

lmcgrane{at}haverford.edu

  Abstract

This article explores the textual and theatrical spaces in which the figure of Mother Shipton trifled with history, hierarchy and seditious discursive strategies in Restoration and eighteenth-century London. Shipton resonated in the popular imagination not merely as a faux-historical personage but also as a fantasy hermeneutic key operating outside of linear history, a linguistic marker of oracular knowledge communicated by performances that belied a tidy shift from oral to print-centred genres in the period.

Key Words: print • oracle • witchcraft • popular culture • pantomime • Fielding, Henry • orality • eighteenth century • Defoe, Daniel • Mother Shipton


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