Characters
This character is the titular character in the play.
Who is Macbeth?
The witches make a series of predictions in Act One.
What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King?
The reason why the play is cursed.
What is Shakespeare used witches' spells .
A play that was studied in Year 10.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
These people were blamed for all misfortune.
What are witches?
This character dies in Act Two.
Who is King Duncan?
Comes back as a ghost in Act Three?
Who is Banquo?
What chant do the witches say in Act Four?
What is 'Double, double, toil and trouble?
This theatre was closely associated with Shakespeare's plays.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This book was written by King James 1.
What is Daemonologie?
This character dies in Act Three.
Who is Banquo?
The king kills his bestie for two reasons.
What is Banquo knows the prophecies and Banquo's descendants will become kings?
What is the name for a ghostly image that warns someone of death?
What is an apparition?
This monarch was on the throne when Macbeth was first performed.
Who is King James 1?
The reason the inclusion of Banquo would have appealed to King James.
What is Banquo was believed to be an ancestor of James 1?
This character dies in Act Four.
Who is Lady Macduff?
This character becomes King of Scotland in Act Five.
Who is Malcolm?
The Jacobeans believed that ghosts appeared for this purpose.
What is to get revenge?
This verse form is used by Shakespeare for his noble characters.
What is iambic pentametre?
This major event in 1605, involving Catholic conspirators, influenced the play's focus on treason and regicide (the killing of a king).
What is The Gunpowder Plot?
This character is the most manipulative.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
The witches' apparitions warn Macbeth of three dangers.
What is Beware Macduff, no man of woman born can kill Macbeth, and when Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane?
Does not have a first name in the play.
Who is Lady Macbeth (and Lady Macduff)?
Shakespeare died on this significant day.
What is his birthday?
This is the natural order of society in Shakespeare's time.
What is The Great Chain of Being?