| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.13 | Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, | Who at Phillippi the good Brutus ghosted, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.52 | And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: | And with our sprightly Port make the Ghostes gaze: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.338 | Egeon art thou not? or else his ghost. | Egeon art thou not? or else his ghost. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.278 | Ghost unlaid forbear thee! | Ghost vnlaid forbeare thee. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.88 | or we poor ghosts will cry | or we poore Ghosts will cry |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.93.2 | eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The Ghosts fall on their knees | Eagle: hee throwes a Thunder-bolt. The Ghostes fall on their knees. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.94 | Offend our hearing: hush! How dare you ghosts | Offend our hearing: hush. How dare you Ghostes |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.122 | The Ghosts vanish | Vanish |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.40 | Enter the Ghost | Enter the Ghost. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.52 | Exit the Ghost | Exit the Ghost. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.126.1 | Enter the Ghost | Enter Ghost againe. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.142 | Exit the Ghost | Exit Ghost. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.38 | Enter the Ghost | Enter Ghost. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.58 | The Ghost beckons him | Ghost beckens Hamlet. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.85 | By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me! | By Heau'n, Ile make a Ghost of him that lets me: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.86 | Exeunt the Ghost and Hamlet | Exeunt Ghost & Hamlet. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.1 | Enter the Ghost and Hamlet | Enter Ghost and Hamlet. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.4.2 | Alas, poor ghost! | Alas poore Ghost. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.96 | Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat | I, thou poore Ghost, while memory holds a seate |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.125 | There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave | There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the / Graue, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.138 | It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you. | It is an honest Ghost, that let me tell you: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.149 | The Ghost cries under the stage | Ghost cries vnder the Stage. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.92 | It is a damned ghost that we have seen, | It is a damned Ghost that we haue seene: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.295 | O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a | Oh good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for a |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.104 | (Enter the Ghost) | Enter Ghost. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.137 | Exit the Ghost | Exit. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.39 | Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong | Neuer, O neuer doe his Ghost the wrong, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.28 | So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold | So many horride Ghosts. O now, who will behold |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.52 | Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate; | Henry the Fift, thy Ghost I inuocate: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.67 | These news would cause him once more yield the ghost. | These news would cause him once more yeeld the Ghost. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.7 | Otherwhiles the famished English, like pale ghosts, | Otherwhiles, the famisht English, like pale Ghosts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.87 | I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost, | I thinke this vpstart is old Talbots Ghost, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.16 | I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there. | I trust the Ghost of Talbot is not there: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.18 | And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves, | And Spirits walke, and Ghosts breake vp their Graues; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.161 | Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost | Oft haue I seene a timely-parted Ghost, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.231 | And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost. | And doe some seruice to Duke Humfreyes Ghost. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.373 | Sometime he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost | Sometime he talkes, as if Duke Humfries Ghost |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.22 | The noble gentleman gave up the ghost. | The Noble Gentleman gaue vp the ghost. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.107 | The ghostly father now hath done his shrift. | The Ghostly Father now hath done his Shrift. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.63 | Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts, | Why all these Fires, why all these gliding Ghosts, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.24 | And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. | And Ghosts did shrieke and squeale about the streets. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.273.2 | Enter the Ghost of Caesar | Enter the Ghost of Casar. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.284 | Exit Ghost | |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.88 | Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost. | Our Army lies, ready to giue vp the Ghost. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.17 | The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me | The Ghost of Casar hath appear'd to me |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.13 | What are you, living men or gliding ghosts, | What are you liuing men, er glyding ghosts, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.15 | No ghosts, my lord, but men that breathe a life | No ghosts my Lord, but men that breath a life, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.84 | And he will look as hollow as a ghost, | And he will looke as hollow as a Ghost, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.311 | Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him | Vex not his ghost, O let him passe, he hates him, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.56 | Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, | Moues like a Ghost. Thou sowre and firme-set Earth |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.38 | Enter the Ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth's place | Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeths place. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.72 | Exit Ghost | |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.87 | Enter Ghost | Enter Ghost. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.92.1 | (sees the Ghost) | |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.106 | Exit Ghost | |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.26 | My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still. | My Wife and Childrens Ghosts will haunt me still: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.46 | Look you, sir, here comes your ghostly father. | Looke you Sir, heere comes your ghostly Father: |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.126 | A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick? | A ghostly Father, belike: / Who knowes that Lodowicke? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.432 | Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break, | Her Brothers ghost, his paued bed would breake, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.177 | Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes. | Looke where my ranting-Host of the Garter comes: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.381 | At whose approach ghosts wandering here and there | At whose approach Ghosts wandring here and there, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.158 | Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, | Some haunted by the Ghosts they haue depos'd, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.8 | Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost | Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghost, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.37 | To yield the ghost; but still the envious flood | To yeeld the Ghost: but still the enuious Flood |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.144 | Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost – | Marry, my Vnckle Clarence angry Ghost: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.26 | Dead life, blind sight, poor mortal-living ghost, | Dead life, blind sight, poore mortall liuing ghost, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.119.2 | Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to Henry the | Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, Sonne to Henry the |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.122 | (To Richmond) | Ghost to Richm. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.125 | Enter the Ghost of Henry the Sixth | Enter the Ghost of Henry the sixt. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.132 | Enter the Ghost of Clarence | Enter the Ghost of Clarence. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.140 | Enter the Ghosts of Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan | Enter the Ghosts of Riuers, Gray, and Vaughan. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.146 | Exeunt Ghosts | |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.147 | Enter the Ghost of Lord Hastings | Enter the Ghost of Lord Hastings. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.152 | Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes | Enter the Ghosts of the two yong Princes. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.156 | (To Richmond) | Ghosts to Richm. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.160 | Enter the Ghost of Anne, his wife | Enter the Ghost of Anne, his Wife. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.165 | (To Richmond) Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep. | Ghost to Richm. Thou quiet soule, / Sleepe thou a quiet sleepe: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.168 | Enter the Ghost of Buckingham | Enter the Ghost of Buckingham. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.174 | (To Richmond) I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid, | Ghost to Richm. I dyed for hope / Ere I could lend thee Ayde; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.192 | Hence will I to my ghostly Friar's close cell, | Hence will I to my ghostly Fries close Cell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.41 | With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No. | With Rosaline, my ghostly Father? No, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.21 | Good even to my ghostly confessor. | Good euen to my ghostly Confessor. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.50 | Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, | Being a Diuine, a Ghostly Confessor, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.55 | O, look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost | O looke, me thinks I see my Cozins Ghost, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.63 | Were I the ghost that walked, I'd bid you mark | Were I the Ghost that walk'd, Il'd bid you marke |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.80 | As, walked your first queen's ghost, it should take joy | As (walk'd your first Queenes Ghost) it should take ioy |