Adaptation
Thomas Shadwell borrowed from the Heywood/Brome work for his own The Lancashire Witches (1681). Shadwell's play was also popular through much of the 18th century; as late as 1782, Charles Dibdin had a success with his pantomime The Lancashire Witches, or The Distresses of Harlequin. Both the Heywood/Brome and Shadwell versions were reprinted together in a 1853 volume titled The Poetry of Witchcraft.
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