Historical Context
Macbeth was written for this monarch.
Who is James I?
"Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" is an example of -----.
What is a paradox?
Lady Macbeth realizes her husband is now beyond her influence and control after he plots to kill this character and his son (name both).
Who is Banquo and his son Fleance?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"
Who are the weird sisters?
This is the type of speech when only one person is standing on stage and speaks for a long time.
What is a soliloquy?
Before murdering Duncan, Macbeth sees an apparition of this.
What is a dagger?
Macbeth sees an apparition of this person at the dinner table.
Who is Banquo?
"Out, damned spot!"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This was the monarch during the time in which Shakespeare wrote this play.
Who is King James I?
Macbeth "unseams" this Irish rebel from "the nave to th' chops."
Who is Macdonwald?
Lady Macbeth always has this by her bed when she sleeps.
What is a candle?
"Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Due to the lack of artificial lighting, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre used what to light the stage?
What is sunlight?
Where Malcolm and Donalbain flee after their father is murdered.
What is England and Ireland?
"He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust."
Who is King Duncan?
This is the year in which Macbeth takes place.
What is 1040 CE.
This is why Macbeth bumps Banquo before Macbeth goes off to kill King Duncan.
What is Banquo can't sleep and is taking a late night walk?
This is the apparitition the tells Macbeth to "beware Macbeth."
What is a head wearing a helmet?
"Bring forth men-children only, / For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males."
Who is Macbeth?
The name of the book that was published after Shakespeare's death and included all of his plays.
What is the First Folio?
The witches give Banquo this prophecy.
What is he will not be king, but his children will be?
This thane is the first to "discover" King Duncan has been murdered.
Who is Macduff?
This person warns Lady Macduff that she and her family are in danger.
Who is the messenger?
"Knock, knock! Never at quiet. What are you? But this / place is too cold for hell."
Who is the porter?
Macbeth is the only play by Shakespeare in which this animal is mentioned.
What is a rhinoceros?
The murderer tells Macbeth that Banquo received this many gashes to his head.
What is 20?
This is the apparition that tells Macbeth that no man born of a woman can harm him.
What is a 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."
Who is Banquo to himself?
Macbeth is a ----- because his overconfidence causes his downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
This is how Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to take action.
What is emasculating him?
This is the apparition that tells Macbeth he cannot be defeated until Birnham Wood comes to meet him at Dunsinane Hill.
What is a child wearing a crown and holding a tree in his hand?
"I shall do so, / But I must also feel it as a man."
Who is Macduff to Malcolm?
Shakespeare's plays and poems were written in this type of English.
What is Early Modern English?
NOT "Shakespearian English" - sorry folks!
By murdering Duncan, Macbeth disrupted this hierarchical structure which visually represented everyone’s and everything’s natural order in the world.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
After seeing an apparition (don't say of what!) at the dinner table, Macbeth says that his mind is full of these.
What is scorpions?
"Naught’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content. / ’Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This is the "old adage" to which Lady Macbeth refers.
What is the poor cat who wants to eat fish but is afraid to get its feet wet?
______ says: “I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly.”
Who is Lady Macduff?
"Threescore and ten I can remember well, / Within the volume of which time I have seen / Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowing."
Who is the / an Old Man?
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well/ It were done quickly. If the assassination/ Could trammel up the consequence, and catch/ With his surcease success; that but this blow / Might be the be-all here,/ But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come..." is an example of this type of thinking / argument.
What is equivocation?
Lady Macbeth always has this by her bed when she sleeps.
What is a candle?
“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly.”
Who is Lady Macduff?
____ says, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes".
Who is one of the witches?
What is REGICIDE?