Ghosts and Witches in Elizabethan Tragedy, 1560-1625 |
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... father's yelling ghost cries for revenge ; His blood within my veins boils for revenge ; O give me leave , Caesar , to take revenge ( V , 1,180-83 ) .58 Since he is nere referring to people who are not his father's murderers , and whom ...
... father's yelling ghost cries for revenge ; His blood within my veins boils for revenge ; O give me leave , Caesar , to take revenge ( V , 1,180-83 ) .58 Since he is nere referring to people who are not his father's murderers , and whom ...
Page 139
... father's death , and scarcely half - a- dozen lines have been spoken when the skeleton is revealed . Though this opening scene has not the haunting mystery and breath - taking climax of Hamlet , it is undoubtedly striking . The audience ...
... father's death , and scarcely half - a- dozen lines have been spoken when the skeleton is revealed . Though this opening scene has not the haunting mystery and breath - taking climax of Hamlet , it is undoubtedly striking . The audience ...
Page 140
... father hang'd vp by his sonne ( 176-182 ) . After killing Otho , Hoffman offers to his father his murtherers sonne " ( 226 ) , and hangs one skeleton next to the other : Father this youth scorn'd When he was set in an ascending throne ...
... father hang'd vp by his sonne ( 176-182 ) . After killing Otho , Hoffman offers to his father his murtherers sonne " ( 226 ) , and hangs one skeleton next to the other : Father this youth scorn'd When he was set in an ascending throne ...
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action actually Agamemnon Alaham already Andrea Antonio Antonio's Revenge apparition atmosphere avenge blood bloud Brutus Bussy Caesar causer characters chorus classical conjuring connection Corineus death deeds devil doth dramatic dream dumb show earth Elizabethan English tendency English tragedies example expository father Faustus frequently Friar furies ghosts and witches ghosts appear Gismond gnosts Gorboduc Gorlois Hamlet hath haue heaven hell Hercules Horestes horror host inciting indicate King Kyd's Locrine loue Medea merely midst Mordred murder murther mythical motive native beliefs native tradition natural necromancy night Oedipus playwrights Plutarch prologue purpose references revenge element revenge ghost revenge motive revenge play revenge tragedy Richard Richard III 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