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 Students who have followed out the matter of this Syllabus will have had suggested to them in the course of it various lines of study, some of which they may care to work out for themselves.

1. Character-Development is an obvious interest that may be traced through a large number of works of drama or fiction.

2. The Antithesis of the Practical and Inner Life may be worked out in many characters and stories: it is specially applicable to Shakespeare's plays of Hamlet and Julius Caesar.

3. The treatment of supernatural beings and phenomena in plays and novels. A list of Shakespeare's plays that deal with these is given above.

4. Subject for Essay. Did Shakespeare believe in Ghosts?