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Description acceptable. A man whose name means this action asks, “Is there no thunder left” and remarks that “when thunder claps, heaven likes” his actions. A pirate’s son named Hoffman disguises himself as Otho to perform this action in a play by Henry Chettle. In a play subtitled for the “honest man’s” instance of this action, Montferrers unusually counsels Charlemont [emphasize] against it. A character named for this action forces a man to watch as his bastard son Spurio cuckolds him. That character, whose name means this action in Italian, tricks the Duke into kissing Gloriana’s poisoned (-5[1])skull. (10[3])A play (10[1])titled (10[1])for this action (10[1])was long (10[1])considered to be by (10[1])Cyril Tourneur (10[2])but is now attributed (10[3])to Thomas Middleton. (10[3])Seneca’s tragedies (10[1])inspired this action’s namesake genre of violent English plays. (10[1])For 10 points, Hamlet spends his play (-5[1])deliberating whether to take what action? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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