Shakespeare
The layout of a sonnet.
What is a poem with 14 lines and 10 syllables per line?
The person that spots the witches first.
Who is Banquo?
The title of Duncan’s son.
What is the Prince of Cumberland?
The gender of Lady Macbeth’s child.
What is male?
William Shakespeare is known as the “Bard of ____”
Who is the Bard of Avon?
The form of iambic pentameter.
What is a line or verse with one stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable?
The reason the original Thane of Cawdor was executed.
What is treason?
The name of the three witches.
What are the Weïrd Sisters?
The people Lady Macbeth want to frame for Duncan’s murder.
Who are the guards?
The theatre where most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed in.
What is The Globe Theatre?
The name of Shakespeare’s spouse.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
The body part that the first witch has.
What is a pilot’s thumb?
The animal Lady Macbeth references to symbolize death in her 2nd soliloquy.
What is a raven?
The item that Banquo gifted to Macbeth from Duncan, for Lady Macbeth, the hostess.
What is a diamond?
The year Shakespeare was born.
What is the 1560s? (1564)
The age of William Shakespeare when he died.
What is in his 50s? (52)
The first witch to speak to Banquo and Macbeth.
Who is witch 1?
Macbeth’s occupation.
What is a general?
The floating item Macbeth sees when he is alone at the end of Act 2 Sc.1.
What is a bloody dagger?
The full name of any one of William Shakespeare’s children? (Hint: One of his tragedies was named after his son)
Who is Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney, and Susanna Hall?
The 4 types of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What are tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances?
The comparison of Banquo to Macbeth by the witches.
What is Banquo is lesser but greater and not so happy but, happier?
The description King Duncan provides for Macbeth’s castle.
(paraphrase)
What is a “pleasant seat, the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses?"
The place where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth conspire about killing Duncan.
Where is the sewer?
The names of 5 Shakespearean tragedies.
What is pick 5( Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Titus Adronicus)?