Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater
Macbeth was written for this monarch.
Who is James I?
"Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" contains an example of this, a repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
What lie does Macbeth tell Banquo about the weird sisters?
What is that he has not thought of them?
Lady Macbeth realizes her husband is now beyond her influence and control after he plots to kill this character and his son (name both).
Who is Banquo and his son Fleance?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"
Who are the weird sisters?
King James was obsessed with these supernatural beings.
What are witches?
In Act I, we learn that Scotland is being attacked by rebel forces and which other European country?
What is Norway?
Before murdering Duncan, Macbeth sees an apparition of this.
What is a dagger?
Macbeth sees an apparition of this character at the dinner table.
Who is Banquo?
"Out, damned spot!"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Macbeth "unseams" this rebel "from the nave to th' chops."
Who is Macdonwald?
Macbeth and his wife frame these characters for Duncan's murder.
Who are the sleeping guards?
After seeing an apparition (don't say of what!) at the dinner table, Macbeth says that his mind is full of these.
What are scorpions?
Act I: 'Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Many of the scenes in Macbeth end with this, a two-line, end-rhymed grouping.
What is a rhyming or Heroic couplet?
After learning of her husband's prophecy, Lady Macbeth calls up evil witches to "unsex [her] here." She asks evil spirits to do this.
What is strip her of her weak feminine traits?
Macbeth brings these bloody things to his wife after murdering Duncan.
What are bloody daggers?
The apparition of the armed head that the witches show Macbeth tells him to "Beware this character."
Who is Macduff, the Thane of Fife?
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust."
Who is Duncan?
Shakespeare's plays were performed in this theater.
What is The Globe?
The witches greet Macbeth with these three titles.
What are Glamis, Cawdor, and king?
Lady Macbeth's public reaction to hearing about Duncan's murder.
What is to faint?
The witches' prophecy that Macbeth shall not be defeated until this comes over Dunsinane Hill comes to fruition.
What is Birnam Wood?
"The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. ’Tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
In Shakespeare's time, people believed in this, meaning that a king was God's anointed ruler.
What is the divine right of kings?
The witches give Banquo this prophecy.
What is he will not be king, but his children will be?
After murdering Duncan, Macbeth says a voice tells him he has done what?
What is "murdered Sleep"?
This character kills Macbeth.
"That is a step / On which I must fall down or else o’erleap, / For in my way it lies.
Who is Macbeth?
In Shakespeare's England, people believed in this, a perfect order to the universe (the natural and human worlds intertwined within it)
What is The Great Chain of Being?
King Duncan names this character the Prince of Cumberland (heir to the throne).
Who is Malcolm?
Hecate, the goddess of witches, says that this is man's greatest enemy.
What is security?
Macbeth does not fear Macduff due to this prophecy by the weird sisters.
What is that no man of woman born shall harm Macbeth?
"Thou hast it now—king, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ’t."
Who is Banquo?
Macbeth is a ----- because his hubris causes his downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
How Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan.
What is emasculating him or questioning his masculinity?
This is the purpose of the porter.
What is comic relief?
This device is used when the characters want to talk to the audience without the other characters on stage hearing what is said.
What is an aside?
"Bleed, bleed poor country"
Who is Macduff?
This is the type of speech when only one person is standing on stage and speaks for a long time.
What is a soliloquy?
____ says, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes".
What is one of the witches?
Lady Macbeth doesn't kill Duncan herself because ----.
What is he looks like her father?
Free Space.
Free Space.
"She would have died hereafter."
Who is Macbeth?.
Complete this quote, name the speaker, and identify the subject of the statement: "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying _______."
What are nothing, Macbeth, and life?