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Page 65
... expect the ghost , like Seneca's to disappear now and be referred to no more in the rest of the play . Such , however , is not the case , The first chorus , beginning 41 See here the drifts of Gorlois Cornish Duke , And 65 .
... expect the ghost , like Seneca's to disappear now and be referred to no more in the rest of the play . Such , however , is not the case , The first chorus , beginning 41 See here the drifts of Gorlois Cornish Duke , And 65 .
Page 96
... beginning of each act it utilizes a Presenter who is something of a Senecan prologue and Chorus and something of the English dumb snow , using actual dumb shows in his first and last appearances , but whose title indicates that he is a ...
... beginning of each act it utilizes a Presenter who is something of a Senecan prologue and Chorus and something of the English dumb snow , using actual dumb shows in his first and last appearances , but whose title indicates that he is a ...
Page 136
... . After the dumb show at the beginning of the last act , the ghost enters , saying : Venit dies , tempusque , quo reddat suis Animam squalentem sceleribus . The fist of strenous vengeance is clutch'd . The stern 136 .
... . After the dumb show at the beginning of the last act , the ghost enters , saying : Venit dies , tempusque , quo reddat suis Animam squalentem sceleribus . The fist of strenous vengeance is clutch'd . The stern 136 .
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action actually Agamemnon Alaham already Andrea Antonio apparition atmosphere avenge blood bloud Brutus Bussy Caesar causer characters chorus classical conjuring connection Corineus death devil doth dramatic dream dumb show earth Elizabethan English tendency English tragedies expository father Faustus frequently Friar furies ghosts and witches ghosts appear Gismond gnost Gorboduc Gorlois Hamlet hath haue heaven hell Hercules Hercules Oetaeus Horestes host inciting indicate King Kyd's Locrine Loue Medea merely midst Misfortunes of Arthur Mordred murder murther mythical motive native beliefs native tradition natural necromancy night Oedipus play playwrights Plutarch popular prologue purpose references revenge element revenge ghost revenge motive revenge play revenge tragedy Richard role says scene Scot seen Seneca's ghosts Senecan tragedy Shakespeare sonne sort soul Spanish Tragedy speech spirit stage Studley suggestion supernatural figures superstitions Tantalus thee things thou threats Thyestes torments translations Troades Ur-Hamlet vengeance Vindicta vnto vpon witchcraft wrath