The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.2026 Thursday, 8 December 2005
From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 7 Dec 2005 19:56:57 -0000
Subject: 16.2015 Celtic or English Folklore Purgatory
Comment: Re: SHK 16.2015 Celtic or English Folklore Purgatory
Bill Arnold writes ...
>Thanks to Peter Bridgman, perhaps the premise of Shakespeare's
>Hamlet might be brought into a more proper focus ...
Bill flatters me unnecessarily. The Hamlet-St. Patrick's Purgatory
connection has been written about by lots of people, notably Stephen
Greenblatt who devotes much of his book 'Hamlet in Purgatory' to the
subject.
Peter Bridgman
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