Characters
Plot
Weird Stuff
Shakespeare
Historical Context
100

This character is the titular character in the play.

Who is Macbeth?

100

The witches make a series of predictions in Act One.

What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King?

100

The reason why the play is cursed.

What is Shakespeare used witches' spells .

100

A play that was studied in Year 10.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

100

These people were blamed for all misfortune.

What are witches?

200

This character dies in Act Two.

Who is King Duncan?

200

Comes back as a ghost in Act Three?

Who is Banquo?

200

What chant do the witches say in Act Four?

What is 'Double, double, toil and trouble?

200

This theatre was closely associated with Shakespeare's plays.

What is the Globe Theatre?

200

This book was written by King James 1.

What is Daemonologie?

300

This character dies in Act Three.

Who is Banquo?

300

The king kills his bestie for two reasons. 

What is Banquo knows the prophecies and Banquo's descendants will become kings?

300

What is the name for a ghostly image that warns someone of death?

What is an apparition?

300

This monarch was on the throne when Macbeth was first performed.

Who is King James 1?

300

The reason the inclusion of Banquo would have appealed to King James.

What is Banquo was believed to be an ancestor of James 1?

400

This character dies in Act Four.

Who is Lady Macduff?

400

This character becomes King of Scotland in Act Five.

Who is Malcolm?

400

The Jacobeans believed that ghosts appeared for this  purpose.

What is to get revenge?

400

This verse form is used by Shakespeare for his noble characters.

What is iambic pentametre?

400

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?

500

This character is the most manipulative.

Who is Lady Macbeth?

500

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?

500

Does not have a first name in the play.

Who is Lady Macbeth (and Lady Macduff)?

500

Shakespeare died on this significant day.

What is his birthday?

500

This is the natural order of society in Shakespeare's time.

What is The Great Chain of Being?