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Page 72
... seems as if Pickering , the author , by taking the Senecan supernatural figures that are the apparent cause of the action together with the native Vice who is the actual cause of the action , and producing his curious combination of ...
... seems as if Pickering , the author , by taking the Senecan supernatural figures that are the apparent cause of the action together with the native Vice who is the actual cause of the action , and producing his curious combination of ...
Page 144
... seems to be an effort on the part of Chapman to use a kind of spirit different from the ordinary ghost which we have seen degenerate ; this seems to be his method of rejuvenating the stage ghost . He goes back to the earlier interest in ...
... seems to be an effort on the part of Chapman to use a kind of spirit different from the ordinary ghost which we have seen degenerate ; this seems to be his method of rejuvenating the stage ghost . He goes back to the earlier interest in ...
Page 182
... seems much more likely that he means " ghost " than some abstract personification ; and a bit later when he speaks of Caesar's spirit , ranging for revenge With Ate by his side come hot from hell ( Ib . , 270-71 ) , it seems to be ...
... seems much more likely that he means " ghost " than some abstract personification ; and a bit later when he speaks of Caesar's spirit , ranging for revenge With Ate by his side come hot from hell ( Ib . , 270-71 ) , it seems to be ...
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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