Who said it and to whom
"and oftentimes to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths"
Banquo to Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 3)
"All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!"
"All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!"
Speaker: The Witches
"All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!"
"All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!"
"All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!"
(Act 1 Scene 3)
"Of this dead butcher..."
Speaker: Malcolm
"Of this dead butcher...and his fiend-like queen"(Act 5 Scene 9)
What is an event that caused Jacobean anxieties around regicide?
The Gunpowder Plot, an assassination attempt on King James I
Why is it so concerning to Macbeth that Fleance escaped being murdered?
Because of the Witches' prophecy that Banquo's sons would be king
“My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white”
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 2)
"Two truths are told As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme...This supernatural soliciting..."
Speaker: Macbeth
"Two truths are told As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme...This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good"
(Act 1 Scene 3)
"Here's the smell of blood still; all..."
Speaker: Lady Macbeth
"Here's the smell of blood still; all...the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
(Act 5 Scene 1)
What expectations were placed on women during the Jacobean era?
To be chaste, obedient, submissive, and silent.
Who is Macbeth the butcher's last kill?
Young Siward
"They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course."
Macbeth to himself/the audience (Act 5 Scene 6)
"Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation..."
Speaker: Macbeth
"Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation...Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
(Act 2 Scene 1)
"The devil himself could not pronounce..."
Speaker: Young Siward
"The devil himself could not pronounce...a title More hateful to mine ear."
(Act 5 Scene 7)
What religious-philosophical concept depicts all existence in a strict, God-given hierarchical order?
The Great Chain of Being
What does Duncan gift Macbeth and Lady Macbeth for their hospitality in hosting him at their home?
A diamond (Oh, good King Duncan, if only you knew!)
"Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it."
Lady Macbeth to herself/the audience (Act 2 Scene 2)
"But in these cases, we still have judgement here that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return..."
Speaker: Macbeth
"But in these cases, we still have judgement here that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return...to plague th'inventor."
(Act 1 Scene 7)
"O nation miserable! With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou..."
Speaker: Macduff
"O nation miserable! With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou...see wholesome days again"
(Act 4 Scene 3
What is the name of the book that King James I write about the supernatural?
Demonologie
When Macbeth initially refuses to fight Macduff on the battlefield, what does Macduff threaten Macbeth with?
"Then yield thee coward, And live to be the show and gaze o'th'time We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted upon and underwrit, 'Here may you see the tyrant'"
Surrender, be captured and we will have you on display for public shaming.
"Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds /Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds / To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets"
The Doctor to Lady Macbeth's Gentlewoman (Act 5 Scene 1)
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown..."
Speaker: Macbeth
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown...And put a barren sceptre in my gripe"
(Act 3 Scene 1)
"I am in this earthly world where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime..."
Speaker: Lady Macduff
"I am in this earthly world where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime...Accounted dangerous folly"
(Act 4 Scene 2)
How did King James I come into power?
Queen Elizabeth I's death in 1603 led directly to King James VI of Scotland inheriting the English throne as King James I (they were cousins), uniting the two crowns.
Who delivers the news of Lady Macduff and their egg's assassination to Macduff?
A very awkward Ross