Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) There is no record of Goya's thoughts during this period. He completed the series during a period recuperating from illness, possibly lead poisoning, when he was in considerable mental and physical pain, and withdrew from public life. "Witches' Sabbath" is believed to be a rather bitter, but silent, protest against the royalists and clergy who had retaken control of Spain after the Peninsular War of 1807–14. Advocates of the Enlightenment had sought to redistribute land to the peasants, to educate women, publish a vernacular Bible and, by replacing superstition with reason, put an end to the Inquisition. Witch hunting, seen
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