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... course , derived from his source , the English Faust Book by P.F .; but from the list of parallels which follows , it is evident that Marlowe was utilizing 42 accepted beliefs : 1. With Faustus ' disillusionment and dissatisfaction with ...
... course , derived from his source , the English Faust Book by P.F .; but from the list of parallels which follows , it is evident that Marlowe was utilizing 42 accepted beliefs : 1. With Faustus ' disillusionment and dissatisfaction with ...
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... course , predominant in the play . In earlier plays , and even in Seneca , Kyd could , of course , find plenty of precedent for using revenge as a motive ; but he develops the desire for revenge into something new and significent , for ...
... course , predominant in the play . In earlier plays , and even in Seneca , Kyd could , of course , find plenty of precedent for using revenge as a motive ; but he develops the desire for revenge into something new and significent , for ...
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... course of villainous tricks and Machiavellian devices , until as he tells us later ( 2407 ff . ) Hoffman has accounted for five of his intended eight victims . During all this time no reference has been made to the skeleton , and we are ...
... course of villainous tricks and Machiavellian devices , until as he tells us later ( 2407 ff . ) Hoffman has accounted for five of his intended eight victims . During all this time no reference has been made to the skeleton , and we are ...
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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