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Question: How did Shakespeare create thunder and lightning in his original production of MacBeth!?
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I have been told that lightning was by moving mirrors reflecting light on to the stage!. thunder was either drums or a large thin piece of metal held up by the edge and shaken!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

quite often they wouldn't have!.
they had very little set, costuming and even less "effects" so all of that had to be told to the audience in words!.
usually in his plays shakpespeare's characters just tell you that it's a storm!. "So fair and foul a day I have not seen" is from ACT I SCENE I of Macbeth, it explains that there is a storm!. another example is in king lear ACT II SCENE IV!. Cornwall says "Let us withdraw, twill be a storm" and 'Tis a wild night, my Regan counsels well!. Come in out 'o the storm!."Www@QuestionHome@Com