Macbeth

Why would Shakespeare idea scene with three witches to begin this play?

What might this beginning prepare for the audience? ACT 1

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Elizabethan audiences really believed in witchcraft and the "dark arts". Beginning with witches would have really drawn his audience into the play.

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