Lewes Lavater: Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night 1572

by John Dover Wilson, May Yardley (Editor)

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).

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1572

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Elizabethan scholar

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[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting contemporary background to traditional views on supernatural phenomena.