[64:1] “Spanish Tragedy,” iii., 12.
[65:1] Ibid., iii., 12a.
[65:2] Ibid., iii., 8.
[65:3] Ibid., iv., 2.
[65:4] Other examples of conventional madness abound. See [page 151, Note 1]. (Ann Ratcliff, in “The Witch of Edmonton.”) Peele, in the “Old Wives’ Tale,” presents us with a character, Venelia, sent mad by a sorcerer, Sacrapant:
She “runs madding, all enraged, about the woods
All by his cursèd and enchanting spells.”
But, apart from this, she does nothing!
[66:1] “Shakespeare, His Mind and Art,” p. 272.
[67:1] “King Lear,” i., 1, 125-6.