Noun
a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something bad.
compunctious
100
What was Shakespeare's acting company called?
The King's Men
Lord Chamberlain's Men
200
"Out damned spot, out I say!"
Lady Macbeth while sleepwalking - expressing her guilt
200
Duncan was killed here.
Inverness
200
"Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
Macbeth said this when he was greeted as the "Thane of Cawdor"
200
Easily perceived; touchable
palpable.
200
Shakespeare's birthday and month
April 23
300
"He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust"
King Duncan says this about the former Thane of Cawdor.
300
Macduff’s castle is where?
What is Fife.
300
"Your face, my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters."
"Look like th' innocent flower; but be the serpent under't"
Lady Macbeth said this to her husband when she is trying to convince him to kill the king.
300
Verb
To use unclear speech in order to mislead or stall
equivocate
300
Put the sentence in traditional word order:
"Me they shall feel"
They shall feel me.
400
"That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth / Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state / Esteem him as a lamb, being compared / With my confineless harms"
Malcolm says this to Macduff
400
What are three things Macbeth sees when he visits the witches a second time?
Helmeted head
bloody baby
child king with tree
Banquo's sons
400
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
The Witches say this right before Macbeth enters.
400
The murdering of one’s parents
parricide.
400
When would you use "THOU"? When would you use "YOU"?
you = formal
Thou = familiar.
500
"But I remember now / I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly"
Lady Macduff commenting on the nature of the society they live in before she is murdered.
500
Where kings go to be crowned.
What is Scone.
500
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty place from day to day"
Macbeth as he prepares for the final battle.
500
Noun
1. A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true
2. One exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects:
paradox
500
What Elizabethan set of beliefs is this quotation reflecting?
"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple and stole thence / The life o' th' building"
Great Chain of being
(The king is anointed and chosen by GOD to rule)