... spirits oft walk in death" Marcellus attempts to stop the ghost by striking it with his pike, but the spirit vanishes. "It was about to speak," notes Bernardo, "when the cock crew." Horatio adds that the ghost responded to the rooster's crow "like a guilty thing/ Upon a fearful summons." By adding these elements of background information it creates a plot that should be ... ...

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