Quiz: Ghosts in Shakespeare's plays

One of the many delights about the vast range of characters in Shakespeare’s plays is the fact that several of them are not even alive, but are ghosts—including such top apparitions as Banquo’s ghost from Macbeth or Hamlet’s father’s Ghost. Most of Shakespeare’s ghosts are murder victims, and some appear first alive and then dead within the same play, often played by the same actor. Challenge yourself with our haunting quiz about the phantoms and apparitions in the plays and how they are portrayed.

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To read more about Shakespeare’s ghosts, you may want to explore some of his plays in the Folger Shakespeare editions in which his ghosts appear: Julius Caesar (haunted by Julius Caesar), Macbeth (Banquo’s Ghost), Hamlet (the Ghost of Hamlet’s father), Richard III (an 11-person sequence of ghostly murder victims), and Cymbeline (family ghosts who come to Posthumus’s aid). Or choose from our many resources for these plays and the rest of Shakespeare’s works, including wide-ranging illustrations for each play.