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Why is the witches use of imagery in Scene i of the Act IV of The Tradegy of Macbeth important given the limitations of Elizabethan theater?
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It is a truism about theatre that if you cannot show something, you have one character tell another about it. That is what happens whenever there is a wedding in any Shakespeare play, because it was illegal to imitate a sacrament on stage. So, for example, in The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio's outrageous behaviour during the wedding ceremony is described not portrayed. Similarly, in Act IV Scene 1 of Macbeth, Macbeth describes his vision of an unending line of decendants of Banquo, because portraying such a thing would be difficult on the Elizabethan stage (or any stage, really).
On the other hand, the witches do not describe, for example, the apparitions, since they were intended to be displayed. There was a hole in the stage which smoke could come out of and then the apparition would suddenly appear. This was bound to bring gasps from the crowd, and there was no need for the witches to describe it. Something similar happened when the witches disappear at the end of the scene. It is possible that the head witch flew up into the ceiling (they could do that too) or other tricks were employed. This scene was intended to be a tour de force of the best that Elizabethan special effects could achieve.
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