THE PLOT OF THE DRAMA 123

: eventually broke the back of the society that had deliberately assumed
lis fatal burden.1

After taking this bird's-eye view of the plot of the drama of renais-
inces, it may be convenient to glance at the process of evocation before
ioking further into the nature of a challenge from the revenant which is
ie nemesis of recourse to the necromancer's art.

1 See pp. 15 and 16, above.