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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 11
T2  - Arrêt sur Scène Focus
SP  - 1-20
ID  - bbbm128
T1  - "Composer Avec Les Morts. Les Fonctions du Spectre sur la Scène Européenne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) [Coming to Terms with the Dead. The functions of the spectrum on the European scene (16th-18th centuries)]"
AU  - Lecercle, François
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
LA  - French
AB  - Examines principal function of stage ghosts in early modern drama, including ghosts as "tragic sign, a dramaturgic marker, a spectacular operator, a cathartic instrument, a demonological operator, a political trick." Argues ghosts serve Aristotelian description of drama, filling duties closely aligned with tragic genre. Considers Ghost in Hamlet. English and French summaries, online. 
ER  -