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Hamlet begins with a ‘night of the living dead’; Banquo turns into a ghost . The Bard had a supernatural streak and it was crucial to the genesis of Gothic literature.
Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing the current performance.
What makes Hamlet the career defining role it is today?
The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal Exchange Theatre production of Hamlet, is in the light bulbs. Hung over the stage, they flicker and hum as they mark Old Hamlet’s movements. They also set the scene for…
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Dean’s Professor of Religion & Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in English, Keele University
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Research Associate in English Literature, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University
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