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Should the murder of macduff's son have been on stage or off stage?
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∙ 13y ago
Shakespeare wrote it to be onstage. It's intended to be especially shocking and sad because he builds up sympathy for the cheeky young fellow in the previous scene, and shows him bravely attacking the murderer and calling him a "shag-eared villain." This carries way more emotional effect than it would just to hear Ross tell MacDuff later on that "his babes" have been killed. This way we know one of his "babes" personally.
Some people think that putting the murder of children onstage is too outrageous and censor that scene. They diminish the play by doing so. (There might be practical as well as PC reasons why not to stage the scene but the play is still diminished significantly by doing so.)
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