“Who plays the ghost?”
“Shakespere” [[note 45]].
“’Tis said he wrote the play.”
“I question it.”
“Why so?”
“He knoweth little Latin.”
“We have heard no Latin.”
“True; but the speech of Horatio is descriptive of the events preceding Cæsar’s death as set forth in Lucan’s Pharsalia” [[note 46]].
“Doth no translation of the Pharsalia exist?” [[note 47]]
“Yes, but only in manuscript.”