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Page 58
... connection is made between the indicated power of the furies and what actually occurs . As we have already noted , Seneca does not make such a connection between the power that his ghosts boast of and the events that take place ; but ...
... connection is made between the indicated power of the furies and what actually occurs . As we have already noted , Seneca does not make such a connection between the power that his ghosts boast of and the events that take place ; but ...
Page 121
... connection is made between the threats of the ghost , the figures he has called on , and the action of the play . Such a connection is , as we have seen , foreign to Seneca's method , and is very similar to what Kyd does , more ...
... connection is made between the threats of the ghost , the figures he has called on , and the action of the play . Such a connection is , as we have seen , foreign to Seneca's method , and is very similar to what Kyd does , more ...
Page 128
... connection is strengthened by the immediately follow- in chorus beginning : What fury thus doth fill the brest With a prodigious rash desire , Which banishing their soules from rest , Doth make them live who high aspire ( 2433-36 ) ...
... connection is strengthened by the immediately follow- in chorus beginning : What fury thus doth fill the brest With a prodigious rash desire , Which banishing their soules from rest , Doth make them live who high aspire ( 2433-36 ) ...
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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