How do the guests react to Macbeth's actions?

Answer 1

There is a report of someone attending a performance in 1610, and it would appear that the play was reasonably well received. And this was some years after it was first written, so it must have had some staying power. However, it is clear that shortly thereafter the play was rewritten and all the scenes with Hecate added in as part of an effort to make the play more popular, so it mustn't have been the most popular play around. And of course the audiences were not "Elizabethan" at all, as Macbeth was written after Queen Elizabeth's death.

Answer 2

The guests in Macbeth's banquet scene are shocked and disturbed by his erratic behavior, as he begins to see apparitions and speaks to them incoherently. They are bewildered by his sudden psychological unraveling and question his sanity. Some guests become suspicious and start to doubt Macbeth's stability and intentions.

Answer 3

The audience would feel staisfied after watching such an emotional, authentic, stupendoes play. It was a killer play, that took the audiences attention throughout the entire time.

Answer 4

In Act II Scene 1 he says, "Is this a dagger I see before me, its handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not but yet I see thee still."

Answer 5

It depends on the production.