Characters
The witches promise that his children will be kings.
Who is Banquo?
The witches first meet Macbeth here.
What is the heath (or a battlefield)?
Of all Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth is the one that uses this word the most.
What is blood or bloody?
She asks the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" to give her manly courage.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Macbeth receives this title as a reward for his deeds in battle.
What is the Thane of Cawdor?
She is the head witch who expresses annoyance with the Three Weird Sisters.
Who is Hecate?
It's ONE of the two countries that Scotland is fighting at the beginning of the play.
What are Ireland and Norway?
She says, "A little water clears us of this deed."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Macbeth fears to kill this character who "Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been/So clear in his great office."
Who is King Duncan?
These were the only people allowed on stage during Shakespeare's time period.
Who are men?
When asleep, this character resembles Lady Macbeth's father.
Who is King Duncan?
In Act V, this place moves to Dunsinane Castle.
What is Birnam Wood?
This character was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped."
Who is Macduff?
Macbeth believes that this sound calls him to kill King Duncan.
What is a bell?
Many of Shakespeare's plays were performed in this London facility.
What is the Globe Theater?
These are TWO of the three characters who flee Scotland after King Duncan's murder.
Who are Malcolm, Donalbain, and Macduff?
It's the name of Macbeth's castle.
What is Inverness
or what is Dunsinane?
It's the subject of the following Macbeth quote: "To be thus is nothing/But to be safely thus."
What is King of Scotland?
It's the term for a short speech which takes place when other characters are on stage. Often, it's a direct address to the audience.
What is an aside?
This is why Shakespeare wrote the naughty drunken porter scene.
What is comic relief?
In Act IV, he sees a vision of eight kings in a row.
Who is Macbeth?
Donalbain says this is the place where there are "daggers in men's smiles."
What is Scotland?
OR
What is Macbeth's castle?
According to Malcolm, "Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it."
Who is the (original) Thane of Cawdor?
It's what Macbeth is talking about when he says, "Bring me no more reports; let them fly all/Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear."
What is the witches' prophecy?
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What is the scout's report of a 10,000 person army advancing towards Dunsinane?
All of Shakespeare's lowly or common characters speak not in poetry, but in this style of writing.
What is prose?