Contents: Introduction, the ghost scenes in Hamlet in the light of Elizabethan spiritualism; a note on the text; list of corrections; Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght; Appendix, the Catholic position in the ghost controversy of the 16th century, with special reference to Pierre Le Loyers IIII Livres des Spectres (1586).
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SPECTACULAR source material on ghosts!,
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This review is from: Lewes Lavater: Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking By Night 1572 (Paperback)
Lavater has provided us some beautiful source material on the paranormal, viewed from a 16th century perspective. It really is fascinating to see how people thought about ghosts nearly a half-millennium ago. While the work bogs itself down a bit in Catholic-bashing (the Reformation was in full swing!) Lavater still manages some brilliant insight, tight logic, and a critical approach that would almost do James Randi proud. Almost.
The non-standard spelling common at the time of translation make this book a bit of a challenge to read at first, but with a little persistence, it can be mastered. Wilson's introduction on Elizabethan spiritism and Yardley's epigraph on the Protestant vs Catholic conflict as it played out with reference to ghosts are both very enlightening and well researched.
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- Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Exisence of Devils and the Powers Possessed by Them by Thomas Alfred Spalding in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Elizabethan Demonology by Alfred Thomas Spalding in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Summa Theologica (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 19 & 20) by Thomas Aquinas on page 223
- Venus and Adonis. by William Shakespeare in Front Matter
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter
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