She has drugged their possets, their late night drinks or nightcaps as we would now say.
Macbeth, yet guards were framed and Lady Macbeth was the plotter!
The guards who serve King Duncan in William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" are known as the thanes.
she gets the guards drunk so that they pass out allowing Macbeth to kill duncan.
He claims he did so out of anger over Duncan's death, but it is really to prevent them from telling the truth.
After Duncan's boy is discovered dead, Macbeth kills the King's guards out of rage and panic. Lady Macbeth tries to maintain control and cover up their involvement in the murder. Macbeth is eventually crowned King of Scotland.
She takes the daggers back to King Duncans chamber, wipes the blood from the daggers onto the Unconscious guards, and leaves the daggers beside them, so that when the body of the king was found it would seem that the guards where guilty of treason.
In the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, King Duncan was murdered by Macbeth using a dagger.
Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] and his Lady [b. c. 1015] planned to blame the two royal guards for the untimely death of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] of Scotland. Lady Macbeth was supposed to serve the guards drugged drinks, to keep them from protecting their sovereign. Macbeth was supposed to kill the sleeping, unarmed King and then the passed out, defenseless guards. The bloodied murder weapons were supposed to be left at the crime scene with the bloodied corpses. The crime scene was supposed to tell a tale of a king killed by his drunken guards and avenged by his outraged host. And that was what happened and how the royal guest chamber was made to look, in Act 2 Scene 2 of the Shakespearean play.
Lady Macbeth enters the King's room to plant the daggers on the guards after she has drugged them. This is part of the plan she and Macbeth devised to frame the guards for the murder of King Duncan.
the guards.
Macduff finds King Duncan's body in his chamber after he has been murdered by Macbeth.
In the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, King Duncan's castle is located in Inverness, Scotland.