Witches' Sabbath (Goya, 1798) feature of Romanticism, and is to be found for example in Weber's opera "Der Freischütz". However, in a Spanish context, Goya's paintings have been seen as a protest against those who upheld and enforced the values of the Spanish Inquisition, which had been active in Witch hunting during the seventeenth-century Basque witch trials. The later "Witches Sabbath" was painted as a bitter struggle raged between liberals and those in favour of a church and a royalist-lead state, which culminated in the so-called Ominous Decade (1823-1833). Both paintings can be seen as an attack on the superstitious beliefs rife in Spain
William Painter (author) works such as Beaumont and Fletcher's "Triumph of Death", John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" (from "Belleforest"), and James Shirley's "Love's Cruelty". "The Palace of Pleasure" was edited by Joseph Haslewood in 1813. This edition was collated (1890) with the British Museum copy of 1575 by Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory matter, including an introduction on the importance of the Italian novella in Elizabethan drama. It has been suggested that Painter was responsible for the 1580 work "A Moorning Diti upon the Deceas of the High and Mighti Prins Henri, Earl of Arundel", attributed to Guil. P. G. Painter's