Next up in the collection is Agamemnon, which has the curious feature of beginning with a prologue spoken by a ghost. Ghosts, of course, appear frequently in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, but I wonder if any play actually begins with a ghost speaking to the audience. The ghost of Hamlet's father speaks a lot (too much for most of us), but he doesn't get cranked up until Hamlet appears and goes out to the edge of the cliffs to speak to him.