Nobody. He was the King, not a kitchen wench. A place was laid at the table for Banquo, but of course it was. Do you think Macbeth could go to the kitchen staff and say, "Uh, don't bother setting a place for Banquo since he's going to be dead by suppertime. Not that I know anything about it. How could I unless I was the murderer? Uh, you didn't hear that last bit."
Macduff takes Macbeth's place at the banquet in the play "Macbeth." Macbeth had planned to sit at the head of the table but gets unsettled by Banquo's ghost, so Macduff takes his place instead.
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Lady Macbeth was also missing from the banquet table in the scene from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" where Banquo's ghost appears. Lady Macbeth excuses herself from the table, fainting in response to Macbeth's behavior and the appearance of Banquo's ghost.
Banquo's ghost does not speak at the banquet in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Instead, it appears uninvited and startles Macbeth by sitting in his place at the table. Macbeth, being the only one who can see the ghost, reacts with horror and guilt to its presence.
"Lay" is the present tense for the word that means "to place or put down": Lay your coat on the bad. Lay your head on the pillow. "Lie" is the present tense for the word that means "to recline": Lie down for a nap. Lie on the examining table. Here is the present and past tense for each of those examples: Today you lay your coat on the bad. Yesterday you laid your coat on the bed. Today I lay my head on the pillow. Yesterday I laid my head on the pillow. Today I lie down for a nap. Yesterday I lay down for a nap. Today he lies on the examining table. Yesterday he lay on the examining table.
Macbeth sees a vision of Banquo's ghost sitting in his place at the banquet table. He becomes visibly disturbed and comments that only he can see the ghost, implying that his guilt and paranoia are manifesting as hallucinations.
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The manager laid the papers on his table is the correct past tense. (to lay)The word "lay" is the past tense of the intransitive verb (to lie, to lie down), e.g. The manager lay on the table (not the papers).
I'm going to lay the book on the table.
The crowning ceremony in Macbeth takes place at Scone, where Macbeth is officially crowned as King of Scotland. This event is significant as it marks Macbeth's ascension to power after he murders King Duncan.
Scone is not a person at all, it's the place where Macbeth is crowned king.