Shakespeare and Historical Context
Because the play is thought to be cursed, it is sometimes called this when spoken inside a theatre.
What is 'The Scottish Play'?
A long speech by a character given to an audience.
What is a monologue?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of this motif.
What is appearance vs reality/ things are not what they seem?
The hallucination that Macbeth sees that leads him to murder Duncan.
What is a dagger?
Macbeth sees this hallucination at the banquet.
What is Banquo's ghost?
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face:He was a gentleman of whom I built, an absolute trust" (1.4.15-16)
Who is King Duncan?
It is commonly thought that Shakespeare died on this day.
What is April 23, 1616 (His Birthday)?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of this literary term.
What is a paradox?
What is, he will not be King, but his children will be?
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth frame these characters for the murder of Duncan.
What is to beware Macduff?
"My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white" (2.2.81-82).
Who is Lady Macduff?
Shakespeare plays were written in what type of English?
What is Early Modern English?
When a character reveals their thoughts out loud to themselves
What is a soliloquy?
These are the three titles the witches greet Macbeth by.
The purpose of the Porter.
What is Comic relief?
This character escapes from the murderers.
Who is Fleance?
"What, you egg?/ Young fry of treachery!" (4.2.94-95).
Who is Murderer?
Shakespeare built and performed his plays in what type of theatre?
What is The Globe Theatre?
When certain characters are unaware of information that the audience knows.
What is Dramatic Irony?
This is the apparition that tells Macbeth that no man born of a woman can harm him.
What is the bloody child?
"Thou hast it now—king, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ’t." (3.1.1-3)
Who is Banquo?
Shakespeare's acting company was called this.
What is 'The Lord Chamberlain's Men' or later called 'The King's Men'?
The word for excessive pride and dangerous overconfidence derived from Ancient Greece.
What is Hubris?
Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan by doing this.
What is emasculating him?
The first person to "discover" Duncan murdered.
Who is Macduff?
Macbeth is considered this archetype according to Aristotle characteristics.
What is a Tragic Hero?
"There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, the nearer bloody" (2.3.164-165).
Who is Donalbain?
Macbeth was written for which Monarch that was fascinated by witchcraft?
Who is James I?
A tragic hero's fatal flaw.
What is a Hamartia?
In Act 1 Scotland is being attacked by these two allied countries.
What is Norway and Ireland?
Malcolm and Donalbain flee to these two countries.
The third apparition says Macbeth will not be defeated until this occurs.
What is Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Hill.
"Knock, knock; never at quiet! What are you? But this/ place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further"(2.3.16-17)
Who is the Porter?
The hero’s recognition. A critical point for your hero, as they have gained insight regarding their true identity or actions and forever changes them.
Anagnorisis
"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" (4.2.83-86).
Who is Lady Macduff?