If you were a director, how would you stage the dagger soliloquy and why?

       If I were a director I would stage the dagger soliloquy without showing the dagger. The point of the scene is to show that Macbeth is going crazy. If you can’t see the dagger, but Macbeth is still talking about it, you will be able to distinguish the fact that he is mad. When Macbeth says, “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” (2.1 35) There shouldn’t be a dagger, but Macbeth should be acting as if it were right in front of him. It makes more sense to show it how other people would see him in that moment, rather than how he would see himself. Without a dagger it shows how mad Macbeth is.