The Hamlet Project

Barnardo speaks like a foreigner
The way I spoke when in a foreign land.
“Please can you tell me the place where I can buy that thing for the rain that you put
Above your head?”
They said, “ombrella?”
“Ah, yes.” I said.
Barnardo doesn’t say
“Still, he looks like our dead king!”
or
“It’s our dead king walking – just like the last time we saw him!”
No – for Barnardo, this ghost is cloaked in the body of king
but importantly
not the current king
no no
in the body of the king that is no longer with us
except he is.
Here
He is the same as a man who was here before
But not – even in his likeness.