Life and Times
According to theater superstition, saying the word "Macbeth" in a theater brings bad luck. Actors are supposed to call it this instead.
What is The Scottish Play?
It is his ghost—and not Duncan’s—that haunts Macbeth.
Who is Banquo?
Establishing the theme of deception immediately, they say, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
Who are the witches?
At the start of the play, Macbeth is already the Thane of this.
What is Glamis?
This heavy metal banger would play during Act IV as Macbeth's downward spiral accelerates.
What is Crazy Train?
When Shakespeare was 18, he married her; she was 26.
Who is Ann Hathaway?
His death symbolizes the destruction of an order and the start of chaos in Scotland, as symbolized by the royal horses eating each other.
Who is Duncan?
Her warning to Macbeth to appear harmless to hide his treacherous intentions, goes "Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
In his soliloquy before the murder, Macbeth imagines he sees this in front of him.
What is a dagger?
One could see Macduff listening to this while thinking of Macbeth after the loss of his wife and child.
What is Bad Blood?
Shakespeare wrote the play specifically to flatter his patron, this king, who wildly obsessed with the occult and even penned a book on the subject titled Daemonologie.
Who was King James?
A Scottish thane suspicious of Macbeth’s kingship from the start. He eventually becomes a leader of the crusade to unseat Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
Recognizing the imminent threat, he says to his brother Malcolm in the aftermath of his father's brutal murder, “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
Who is Donalbain?
After surviving an assassination attempt, Macbeth compares him to a young 'worm' that will one day produce venom.
Who is Fleance?
By Act III, Macbeth has frozen out his wife, and he is probably bumping this banger while he plots his next move.
What is Can't Tell Me Nothing?
Of the four types of plays Shakespeare wrote, Macbeth is this type.
What is a tragedy?
The first to encounter Macbeth during the fight in Act V, and Macbeth ultimately kills him. At least his wounds were in the front though.
Who is Young Siward?
His famous nihilistic reflection begins with, "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day..."
Who is Macbeth?
No doubt haunted by her tortured mind, Lady Macbeth does this which leads to her confessing to the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff's family.
What is sleepwalking?
This haunting tune is a reflection on aging, mortality, regret, and looking back at the ruins of one's life; it might as well be Macbeth's theme song.
What is Hurt?
Shakespeare's plays were performed here; the name came from its twenty sides that gave it a circular appearance.
What is the Globe Theatre?
The goddess of witchcraft, who helps the three witches work their mischief on Macbeth.
Who is Hecate?
His warning to his good friend goes, "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence."
Who is Banquo?
Macduff reveals that he was born by this medical procedure and kills Macbeth, fulfilling the final prophecy.
What is a Caesarean section?
Lady Macbeth should have been prescribed this song after succumbing to the guilt of her role in Duncan's assassination.
What is Take Me to Church?