Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater
Macbeth was written for this monarch.
Who is James I?
"Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" is an example of -----, a type of trope in which the word order is reversed.
What is chiasmus?
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?
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Character Motives
Shakespeare's plays and poems were written in this language.
What is early modern English?
In Act I, we learn that Scotland is being attacked by these two allied countries.
What are Norway and Ireland?
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 to the imaginary blood on her hands?
This is another word for a self-taught person.
What is autodidact?
Who is King James I?
Macbeth "unseams" this Irish 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?
-she is speaking to herself about how her husband is too weak to do what needs to be done to become king.
Due to the lack of artificial lighting, plays were performed in this type of theatre (an open circular or oval building with a central space surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators).
What is an amphitheater?
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?
Who says the following, and who is this character referring to?
"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 referring to the traitorous Thane of Cawdor?
Shakespeare was BORN in this century.
What is the 16th? (1564-1616).
The witches greet Macbeth with these three titles.
What are Glamis, Cawdor, and king?
Why does Duncan's murder, as well as all other murders of this era and prior, occur off stage?
What is because what we can imagine is far worse than what can be depicted on the stage?
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?
-said to Macbeth when brings the daggers to her
Renaissance drama demonstrated the era's return to the traditions of Ancient Greece, including that of Ancient Greek drama. According to Aristotle, tragedies should contain this plot device, also known as the reversal of situation. This is often the moment when the tragic hero embodies the evil he previously despised and the shift of the tragic protagonist’s fortune from good to bad.
What is peripeteia?
The witches give Banquo this prophecy.
What is he will not be king, but his children will be?
After murdering Duncan, Macbeth says that he has this stuck in his throat.
What is "Amen"?
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 to himself when he hears Duncan announces another character as Prince of Cumberland?
(don't say which character. This is in another category!)
Renaissance drama demonstrated the era's return to the traditions of Ancient Greece, including that of Ancient Greek drama. According to Aristotle, tragedies should contain a scene where the tragic hero has a moment of clairvoyant insight or understanding as he suddenly comprehends the web of fate that he has entangled himself in. This plot device is also referred to as this.
What is anagnorisis?
King Duncan names this character the Prince of Cumberland.
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?
Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan by doing this.
What is emasculating him?
This is the purpose of the porter.
What is comic relief?
This is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined barrier separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this, the convention assumes the actors act as if they cannot. It can be "broken" when a character/actor addresses the audience.
What is the fourth wall?
"I shall do so, / But I must also feel it as a man."
Who is Macduff to Malcolm?
-after Malcolm tells Macduff to "dispute it like a man."
"For brave Macbeth...DisDaining fortune, with his branDished steel which smokeD with blooDy execution" uses -----, a type of sound repetition.
What is consonance?
By murdering Duncan, Macbeth disrupted this hierarchical structure which visually represented everyone’s and everything’s natural order in the world.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
"Naught’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content. / ’Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
Who is Lady Macbeth as she speaks to her husband after the supper table "fit" he had.
____ say, "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won".
What are the witches?
Lady Macbeth doesn't kill Duncan herself because ----.
What is he looks like her father?
Which character speaks to whom of what matter?
"If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.—Pull ’t off, I say.—
What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug,
Would scour these English hence? Hear’st thou of them?"
Who is Macbeth to the doctor about Scotland?
The long sound I is ______ sound device in the following lines: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine.
What is assonance?
--- says, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Act IV: “I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly.”
Who is Lady Macduff to herself after the messenger warns her of the murderers.