A friendly ghost, a head in a well, a mute madwoman – and much more: weird comedy in Peele’s The Old Wife’s Tale (1595); or, Jack the friendly ghost
Friendly ghosts are rare in English drama, as elsewhere. We expect ghosts to be scary, vengeful, angry, ugly. When authors try to create nice ghosts, problems arise: ghosts are not supposed to be nice! In his comedy The Old Wife's Tale (1595), George Peele invented Jack, the ghost (apparently)...
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Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus
2022
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