Macbeth was first performed for king James 1. how does shakespeare use the play to compiment his monarch?

Answer 1

Nothing. Some people think that he wrote the play to please the king because it is about Scotland, has a flattering reference to James's ancestor Banquo and deals with witches, which were one of the king's pet subjects. However, all of these things were part of the story before Shakespeare got hold of it, in his source material, Holinshed's Chronicles. Holinshed has this to say about the witches and Banquo's decendants:
"when suddenlie in the middest of a laund, there met them thrée women in strange and wild apparell, resembling creatures of elder world, whome when they attentiuelie beheld, woondering much at the sight, the first of them spake and said; "All haile Makbeth, thane of Glammis" (for he had latelie entered into that dignitie and office by the death of his father Sinell.) The second of them said; "Haile Makbeth thane of Cawder." But the third said; "All haile Makbeth that héerafter shalt be king of Scotland." Then Banquho; "What manner of women (saith he) are you, that séeme so little fauourable vnto me, whereas to my fellow heere, besides high offices, ye assigne also the kingdome, appointing foorth nothing for me at all?" "Yes (saith the first of them) we promise greater benefits vnto thée, than vnto him, for he shall reigne in déed, but with an vnluckie end: neither shall he leaue anie issue behind him to succéed in his place, where contrarilie thou in déed shalt not reigne at all, but of thée those shall be borne which shall gouerne the Scotish kingdome by long order of continuall descent."

Answer 2

James I of England was also quite separately James VI of Scotland and very interested in Scottish history and his own ancestry. His was also very interested in witchcraft, so Shakespeare introduced a sizeable dollop of that.

Answer 3

In the Shakespearean play, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] was grateful to Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. He was so thankful that he gave the title and possessions of the disgraced Thane of Cawdor to Macbeth. The reason for the gratitude was Macbeth's typically brave, courageous, heroic, noble defense of his king and his country. Most particularly had he maintained that valiant stance against seemingly insurmountable odds in the recent struggles against invading Norwegians and rebellious Scotsmen. Where others dared not tread, friends and fellow Generals Macbeth and Banquo threw themselves in the midst of the bloodied fray.

Answer 4

James supported everything Shakespeare's company did, which is why they were called the King's Men. It is thought that the play Macbeth was written to please the King for two reasons: first, because according to Holinshed, Shakespeare's source for the play, Banquo was James's ancestor, and this is portrayed as Macbeth is shown a line of kings stretching out to the crack of doom. Second, James was a great believer in witches and it is thought that the witche scenes were put in to please him.

We don't really know if the play was presented at the Blackfriars or at court, although this seems most likely, nor whether James liked it.

Answer 5

Wrong. There is no evidence that Macbeth was ever performed for King James. It is noticeably absent from the lists of plays which were performed at court. Indeed we have only one record of it having been played during Shakespeare's lifetime, and that was at the Globe in 1611. Because that account differs in details from the play we know, because of its shortness, because it was never published in Quarto, and because parts were clearly added by another hand before it was published in the First Folio suggest that it was much-revised and generally unpopular. It may well be that the king was not happy with the play for portraying the murder of a well-loved Scottish king by the main character of the story. Such a story might give people ideas. Parts of the story which are flattering to the king, such as the references to Fleance's descendants becoming kings when he was supposedly an ancestor of the Stuarts, the dumb-show in Act IV Scene 1, and building Malcolm up as a parallel to James (both of their fathers were murdered) and extolling his virtues all are included to try to soften the potentially offensive nature of the story.

Answer 6

King James the First of England was also King James the Sixth of Scotland with Scottish ancestry and upbringing. He was also fascinated by witchcraft. He also had a cousin called Banquo.

Answer 7

King James I believed that the play had real witch encantations. He had supposedly wrote a book on demonology.

Answer 8

James I of England (VI of Scotland) is not in MacBeth

Answer 9

He killed the previous king....might is right in those times