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Shakespeare's Ghost
When Rosenberg discusses Hamlet’s ghost, about how people have tried to give it a haunting effect over the centuries, he drops an interesting personal note about Shakespeare.
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In Shakespeare’s time, surely all the resources of the Globe must have been used to present, with as much terror as possible, the advent of the ghost - perhaps especially because Shakespeare himself may have played it. (Rowe thought it was the “top” of his acting.)
-- Marvin Rosenberg, “The Masks of Hamlet”
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In Shakespeare’s time, surely all the resources of the Globe must have been used to present, with as much terror as possible, the advent of the ghost - perhaps especially because Shakespeare himself may have played it. (Rowe thought it was the “top” of his acting.)
-- Marvin Rosenberg, “The Masks of Hamlet”