Explore the ways Shakespeare creates tension in the opening two scenes

... Explore the ways Shakespeare creates tension in the opening two scenes Shakespeare creates a lot of tension in the opening two scenes, by starting act one, scene one, with short sentences and questions, such as, "Who's there?" So the audience can tell that the characters are feeling edgy about something at the start. These short sentences carry on until line 20, it gets the audience involved from the start, you're straight into the play, and there is no big introduction. It begins the play at midnight when it is very cold, which it itself is very spooky and is like the witching hour "Tis now struck twelve." "Tis bitter cold." The characters start to talk about a ghost that they've seen, and you can sense fear from them "touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us" Once the ghost enters there is a lot of tension, especially as the ghost doesn't speak, which

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