Shakespeare Background
Who did Shakespeare lose that likely impacted his life and writing heavily?
His son, Hamnet
What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?
The Globe Theater
What is Lady Macbeth's "prayer" to the spirits after she learns Duncan is coming"?
She wants to be filled with cruelty, in order for her to be strong enough to do what needs to be done to make Macbeth king.
Not so happy, yet much happier.
Witch
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
Sergeant/ captain
To which family member did Shakespeare leave almost all of his fortune?
Daughter Susanna
What shut down theaters throughout London during Shakespearean times?
What is the difference between an aside, a soliloquy, and a monologue.
An aside is a brief comment to the audience; a soliloquy is a long speech stated only to the audience; a monologue is a speech heard by everyone.
"Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness"
Lady Macbeth
Why do some rumor that Shakespeare did not actually write his own plays?
He died before any of his plays were actually published
Shakespeare’s life facts have many gaps that historians do not know about. These gaps are referred to as...
The Lost Years
Macbeth says "this" will be his downfall
Ambition
There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.
King Duncan
He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Macbeth
Where was Shakespeare born?
Stratford upon Avon
What is the "Macbeth Curse"
It is bad luck to say the name Macbeth in any theater
Get Duncan's guards drunk; Kill Duncan with the guard's daggers; smear blood on the guards to place blame on them
"No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth."
King Duncan
But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.
Banquo
37 plays; 154 sonnets
Shakespeare's completed works were published seven years after his death in a collection of texts titled as ......
The First Folio
What THREE titles were given to Macbeth by the witches?
Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland
This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth?
Macbeth
My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
Banquo