CHARACTERS: Ghost Flashcards

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The ghost of Hamlet’s father . . .

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The ghost of Hamlet’s father [was] either illusions of minds unhinged by melancholy or devils masquerading as spirits of the departed in order to lure the persons they address to damnation.

  • Campbell and Quinn (1966)
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The ghosts of departed persons are not . . .

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The ghosts of departed persons are not the wandering souls of men but the unquiet walks of devils, prompting and suggesting us into mischief, blood and villainy.

  • Thomas Browne 1642
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Notes the devil often adopts the . . .

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Notes the devil often adopts the form of a dead father to incite evil ‘we will sooner harken to him than otherwise’

  • Thomas Nashe
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Once the ghost manifests itself for a second time . . .

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Once the ghost manifests itself for a second time, the pace of the action immediately quickens . . . the actors are, paradoxically, in some way enlivened by this creature from the dead; each abandons a sedentary position to assume and active role.

  • Peter Reynolds 1988
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