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... stage . With The Spanish Tragedy we come to the first considerable use of a host on the popular stage ; it marks an extension to plays presented before a general audience of the tendencies noted in the pre- ceding chapter . Exactly what ...
... stage . With The Spanish Tragedy we come to the first considerable use of a host on the popular stage ; it marks an extension to plays presented before a general audience of the tendencies noted in the pre- ceding chapter . Exactly what ...
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... stage ... and the subsequent introduction of Queen Margaret with the head in her hands . But mere bloodiness , which after all comes directly from Holin- sned and which is inevitable in plays dealing as these do with the seizing of ...
... stage ... and the subsequent introduction of Queen Margaret with the head in her hands . But mere bloodiness , which after all comes directly from Holin- sned and which is inevitable in plays dealing as these do with the seizing of ...
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... stage in view of the audience , even though not seen by all the characters , should alone be sufficient to establish ... stage is proved by the contemporary testimony of Dr. Simon Forman . Stoll has shown that " whatever is represented ...
... stage in view of the audience , even though not seen by all the characters , should alone be sufficient to establish ... stage is proved by the contemporary testimony of Dr. Simon Forman . Stoll has shown that " whatever is represented ...
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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