Name that Speaker
"More is thy due than more than all can pay."
Who is Duncan?
Hamartia
What is a fatal flaw?
The play Macbeth is said to have been written in this year.
What is 1606-1607?
"Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles".
Who is the Doctor?
The first death in the play.
Who is Macdonwald?
The year that Macbeth was first performed.
What is 1606?
The number of kings that the final apparition shows Macbeth in Act 4.
What is 8?
"Near Birnam wood
Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming."
Who is Angus?
Excessive pride
What is hubris?
Two adjectives used to describe Macbeth in Scene 2 of Act 1.
What are brave and noble?
Who is King James I?
The witches use this part of the pilot in their brew.
What is his thumb?
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
Who is the second witch?
Macbeth is described as an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power.
What is a usurper?
The most recent Hollywood actor to play Macbeth.
Who is Daniel Craig?
The part of the dog that the witches use in their brew.
What is tongue?
"I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly."
Who is Lady Macduff?
A metaphor used by Aristotle in the Poetics to describe the effects of true tragedy on the spectator
What is catharsis?
Shakespeare learnt about the real life Macbeth from this historical document.
What are Holinshed's Chronicles?