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• “Conference With the Dead”: A Brief History of Haunting

  

  This chapter is part literature review, part mission statement: in it, I outline how the notion of a “ghost” would have been understood by somebody living at the turn of the 17th Century. What – or who – *were* ghosts? What did they look like? Where did they come from? Most importantly, I begin to…

  James Alsop

  Jun 15, 2020

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  alsop, Duchess of Malfi, Ghosts, Hamlet, medieval, Phd, playing dead, schwyzer, Shakespeare