I have known a bell introduced into several tragedies with good effect, and have seen the whole assembly in very great alarm all the while it has been ringing.

But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English theatre so much as a ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody shirt.

A spectre has very often saved a play, though he has done nothing but stalked solemnly across the stage, or rose through a cleft in it and sunk again without speaking one word.

There may be a proper season for these several terrors, and when they only come in as aids and assistances to the poet, they are not only to be excused but to be applauded." The reader may be reminded that Shakespeare has evinced a very decided partiality for ghosts.

In "The Second Part of King Henry VI.," Bolingbroke, the conjurer, raises up a spirit.