At the end of the incantation scene the Italian translator has made Macbeth fall insensible upon the stage.

This is a change of questionable propriety from a psychological point of view; while in point of view of effect it leaves the stage for some moments empty of all business.

To remedy this, a bevy of green ballet-girls came forth and pointed their toes about the prostrate king.

A dance of High Church curates, or a hornpipe by Mr.T.
P.Cooke, would not be more out of the key; though the gravity of a Scots audience was not to be overcome, and they merely expressed their disapprobation by a round of moderate hisses, a similar irruption of Christmas fairies would most likely convulse a London theatre from pit to gallery with inextinguishable laughter.

It is, I am told, the Italian tradition; but it is one more honoured in the breach than the observance.
With the total disappearance of these damsels, with a stronger Lady Macbeth, and, if possible, with some compression of those scenes in which Salvini does not appear, and the spectator is left at the mercy of Macduffs and Duncans, the play would go twice as well, and we should be better able to follow and enjoy an admirable work of dramatic art..