The three witches may not be so scary or believable to modern audiences today, but they struck fear into the hearts of the Jacobean audience when it was first staged by William Shakespeare in 1606. In this first blog post, we will explore exactly what made the witches so important to the play and why they were used in the opening scene.
Information for this section is useful for AO4 of the English Literature controlled assessment:
AO4 - relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts; explain how texts have been influential and significant to self and other readers in different contexts and at different times. (EXPLORE CONTEXT)
