"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"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm130/
Author:
	Whitworth, Charles.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Arrêt sur Scène Focus 11 (2022): 1–7. (https://journals.openedition.org/asf/2274)
Annotation:
	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. 
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Peele, George
Tags:
	Cymbeline, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm130