They probably didn't. The play was not published during Shakespeare's lifetime and shows signs of revision by another playwright, both of which suggest that it was not popular. And in any event, the audience which watched it was technically Jacobean and not Elizabethan, since Macbeth was written after Queen Elizabeth's death.
Shakespeare hoped to please King James I with his play "Macbeth". The play was written to appeal to the king's interest in witchcraft and the supernatural, as well as to glorify his own Scottish heritage. Additionally, Shakespeare aimed to satisfy his audience's thirst for entertainment by incorporating elements of drama, intrigue, and tragedy into the story.
We cannot read Shakespeare's mind, but in general the main character of a tragedy is someone who comes to a bad end and we feel sorry for him. It's usually a "him", but you can feel sorry for characters like Lady Macbeth, Desdemona and Ophelia who also come to bad ends.
Foolish critics have thought that the only way to get us to care for someone who comes to a bad end is to make him a good person with "one fatal flaw". This is ridiculous because people's characters change depending on the pressures put on them, and they do different things depending on the situation. Sometimes the people in tragedies are very good people like Desdemona to whom bad things happen, and sometimes they are very bad people like Richard III. In either case, there is something about them which is attractive and so we feel a pang at their deaths, a feeling that it should have turned out differently.
What makes a play like Timon of Athens less successful is that Timon is such an unlikable character that when he dies, we are not sorry about it. It's a bit of a relief actually. And yet Timon is not a bad person--on the contrary, he harms nobody but himself.
Macbeth, on the other hand, is persuaded into something he did not really want to do, the murder of Duncan, an act which he instantly and bitterly regrets. Everything else he does comes of fear of reprisal. We can easily sympathize with his guilt and fear and feel sorry for him when he is faced with his death in the person of Macduff.
He tried to please King James I because he was king at the time when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth so he included witchcraft in the play to please King James because he believed in it.
Macbeth is actually a play, and Shakespeare created it. Hope that helps.
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William Shakespeare is the writer of the play 'Macbeth'. It is a tragedy that depicts the rise and fall of the Scottish general Macbeth.
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Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play Macbeth says, 'You know your own degrees'
The play Macbeth is written entirely in English.
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The play of the same name - Macbeth.
There is no character named Seton in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The main characters are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff, among others. If you are referring to a different version or adaptation of Macbeth, please provide more context.
In Scotland many years ago, there was a king named Macbeth. Wlliam Shakespeare's Macbeth was named after this great king. unlike in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth was a fantastic legendery King, and not a murderous man, like in the play
Shakespeare's principal source for the play "Macbeth" was the historical chronicle "Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland." Shakespeare adapted the story of Macbeth from this source, drawing inspiration from the real-life events of King Macbeth of Scotland.
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