SHAKESPEARE’S GHOSTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18786, 21 May 1923, Page 10

SHAKESPEARE’S GHOSTS

Tt is sometimes said that Shakespeare teaches little or nothing concerning life after death. The reply is that this was not his province. His genius was to paint the life of this world as he saw it. Mrs. Leo. Grindon. who is a considerable authority on the hard and his works, maintains, nevertheless, that our greatest poet knew a great deal about spirits, and m a series of articles (“Shakespeare’s Ghosts ”) in the Manchester City News a b’ttle time ago, .she gives much information in support of her views. Taking “ Cymbeline,” she shows some striking parallels between the “supernatural” elements in that play and the facts of modern spiritualism. From “The Winter’s Tale” she selects the trance of Hermione and her appearance (in the etheric body) to Antigonus while at sea. “Hamlet" naturally is fertile in illustrations both ns regards the action of the play and the text. Some of .Mrs. Grindon's illustrations of her argument are both st’iking and ingenious. We read them, however, without surprise, comments Light. That anything should lie outside the range of that great mind which we describe as Shakespeare —that wpuld be the really surprising thing.