Excerpt from The Importance of the Ghost in Hamlet
In the opinion of the present writer, critics have hitherto, as a rule, overlooked the peculiar importance, in this connection, to be attributed to the utterances Of the ghostw I seen it affirmed that the first step in the inter protation of Hamlet is to serutnme'thgactio'ns and utterances 9g thehghos't, to note _what it does and what it le eaves undone what _it says and _what it refrains from saying, and to regard.