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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 11
T2  - Arrêt sur Scène Focus
SP  - 1-7
ID  - bbbm130
T1  - "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"
AU  - Whitworth, Charles
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Examines friendly ghosts in early modern English drama, particularly ghost of Jack in George Peele's Old Wife's Tale (1595). Considers paradoxical nature of friendly ghosts and how Jack "facilitates the happy dénouement of the main plot of the play-within." Considers in relation to friendly or benign ghosts in Shakespeare, such ghosts of Posthumus’s parents and brothers in Cymbeline. English and French summaries, online. 
ER  -