You will no doubt notice that ghosts and spirits play a rather large role in Hamlet. Not merely as an oft used character, but also as a main basis for the plotline, and one of the key indications of Hamlet's madness. His dead father's spirit stays on our mortal plane to explain how he did to Hamlet. The idea in the play is that the ghost is actually there, as opposed to being a mere figment of Hamlet's imagination. What was the basis for Shakespeare to use the ghost in the first place?

The idea of supernatural beings was not new in Shakespeare's time. It has been around since the dawn of time, due to man's constant fixation on that which he cannot see or e

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