Banquo

Banquo will be made a ghost and Lady Macduff and her children will be slaughtered in their castle.

“Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair,” Banquo questions him in my edition of the play.

Even before Macbeth lays eyes on the ghost of Banquo at the banquet, he adopts a version of Hamlet’s antic disposition, laughing strangely and behaving erratically.

When the freshly murdered Banquo crashes the party, Macbeth’s crackup goes into overdrive, suggesting a psychotic break more than a bad conscience.

He predicted that Mr. Johnson would haunt Mr. Sunak’s predecessor, Liz Truss, like Banquo’s ghost tormented Shakespeare’s Macbeth — a prediction that did not come to pass, if only because Ms. Truss served a mere 50 days.