Confessions of a Justified Sinner (4 page)

As to additional, concomitant surveys: the best account of witchcraft and its many ramifications is Sir Keith Thomas’s
Religion and the Decline of Magic
(1971); the atmospherics of Romanticism are to be found in
The Portable Coleridge
, edited by I. A. Richards (1950, copyright renewed 1978), and in entries by Addison, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey and Leigh Hunt in
A Book of English Essays
, edited by W. E. Williams (1942); the points raised in the foregoing preface of Hamlet’s relationship with Robert Wringhim Colwan may be checked against essays and remarks on Shakespeare’s play by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers collected in
Hamlet: A Casebook
, edited by John Jump (1968). Ideas about Edmund Kean and profiles of similar personalities may be found in
On Actors and the Art of Acting
by George Henry Lewes (1875, reprinted in recent times by the Grove Press, New York). A discussion of the overlaps between acting and madness is also to be located in the present editor’s
Stage People
(1989). Alexander Mackendrick and Ealing films are dealt with extensively by Philip Kemp in his
Lethal Innocence: The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick
(1991). Anthony Burgess’s autobiography comprises two volumes,
Little Wilson and Big God
(1987) and
You’ve Had Your Time
(1990).