The stage ghost was triumphant.

He had attained his apogee.

"The Castle Spectre" remained a stock piece for years, and has even appeared upon the stage in quite recent times.
Formerly the public had been satisfied with a very prosaic ghost.

A substantial figure, with a whitened face, and a streak of red paint on his brow, was thrust through a trap-door, and it was held that all had been done that was necessary in the way of stage illusion.

The ghost of Hamlet's father was frequently attired in a suit of real armour borrowed from the Tower.