Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) during the Logroño Inquisition, was an appalling regression to liberals such as Goya. As court painter Goya was a part of the established order; surviving evidence indicates he was acquiesced to the wishes of his patrons. Yet numerous paintings and etchings have emerged since, suggesting he had convictions favouring liberalism, enlightenment, and reason. He seems to have kept such beliefs private, only expressing them in his private art; his more sensitive works were not published at the time, probably for fear of reprisal or persecution. In "Witches' Sabbath" Goya mocks and ridicules the superstition, fear and irrationality of the ignorant
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