- “Haunt me still”: Shakespeare’s ghosts - Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare’s most famous ghost is probably Hamlet’s father, a commanding sepulchral creature who compels his son to avenge his murder While most of Shakespeare’s ghosts appear to only one person, usually as manifestations of a guilty conscience, the ghost of King Hamlet is seen by several people
- Shakespeares Ghosts | Royal Shakespeare Company - RSC
Along with gods, witches, spirits and fairies, ghosts appear throughout Shakespeare’s plays But who are Shakespeare’s ghosts, where do they appear, and how might they have been originally staged?
- Ghosts in Shakespeare - Bardology
“Cymbeline” (c 1609) is a late play, but ghosts have a long history in Shakespeare’s stagecraft The first appearance of a ghost in Shakespeare is almost certainly in “Richard III” (c 1592)
- How Ghosts Were Viewed During Shakespeare’s Time.
Shakespeare uses ghosts in a number of his plays and hopefully this has served to help better explain why Shakespeare might have designed his ghosts the way he did Religion has had a lot to do with some of the beliefs of his time and ties in to the history of England in that way
- Shakespeares Ghosts
Arthur Ratham's illustration depicts a ghost scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Shakespeare was no different from his contemporaries, recalling the stories which he would have been told at his mother’s knee, rather than those he read in books like Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- Shakespeare Resource Center - Ghosts of Shakespeare
The most famous and plot-driven of Shakespeare's ghostly inventions, the ghost of Hamlet's father is the catalyst for everything that happens in the play The ghost is also the most straightforward of spirits; he tells Hamlet to avenge his murder at the hands of his brother, Claudius
- Ghosts, Witches, and Shakespeare - Utah Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare’s audiences, and his plays, were the products of their culture Since the validity of any literary work can best be judged by its public acceptance, not to mention its lasting power, it seems that Shakespeare’s ghosts and witches were, and are, enormously popular
- Shakespeare on Ghosts – The Shakespearean Student
Ghosts appear in five Shakespearean plays: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Richard the Third, Macbeth and Cymbeline In all but one of these plays, and in many other Elizabethan and Jacobean dramas, a ghost is a murdered person who needs someone to avenge their deaths
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