Hamlet, the Ghost, and a New Discovery
In 1971, Paul Siegel theorized that the Hamlet ghost was a compound made up of Seneca's ghosts, the Catholic purgatorial spirit, and the popular graveyard spook. The spook story was never found because Elizabethan publishers avoided the topic, but after 1660 old and new ghost stories came out in quantity. In 1674 Francis Morgan, barrister and antiquary, wrote a letter to Robert Hooke, the leading English scientist, about a ghost murdered in an orchard in Southwark, and the story bears several resemblances to the Ghost's account of its murder in Hamlet. Part of the letter is from the 16th century. It has not been published since 1806, and was…
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- ISBN: 978-3-659-86157-4
- EAN: 9783659861574
- Produktnummer: 37578777
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 56 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.3 cm 102 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 102
Über den Autor
David George, Emeritus Professor of English at Urbana University, Ohio, has published Shakespeare's First Playhouse (1981); Records of Early English Drama: Lancashire (1991); Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition: Coriolanus (2004); A Comparison of Six Adaptations of Coriolanus (2008), and 50 articles. He has received many grants and fellowships.
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