THE WRONG GHOST.

THE WRONG GHOST. I know it’s a matter of crossed wires and typographical errors or something, but I can’t resist quoting this sentence from the weekend Financial Times: “For all the existential anxiety expressed with such wondrous lucidity in HAMLET, is it not the ghost of Claudius [sic] that sets the chilling scene, and that undermines the play’s young protagonist?” The writer has a regular column entitled “Culture.” I think that I like the sentence so much because, apart from the factual error, it has the ring of high critical style.