{"id":4805,"date":"2021-12-14T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=4805"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:17:21","slug":"witches-vanish","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/witches-vanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Witches Vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Claudia Barnett \u201988<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/54394194-witches-vanish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this volume<\/a> is the text of a play by Barnett, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University who creates experimental works on themes of women, history, and science. <em>Witches Vanish<\/em> evokes the trio of \u201cWeird Sisters\u201d from Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Macbeth<\/em>, using stylized vignettes that employ puppetry, poetry, and surrealism to explore tales of women who have disappeared, either by choice or against their will. 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