Vocab Words
This keeps characters from being together or knowing the whole context of a situation
What is a blocking force?
When an actor plays multiple characters in one performance
"Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to
say we will do no harm with our swords and that
Pyramus is not killed indeed."
Who is Nick Bottom? (MND.3.1.17-19)
"One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet
I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not
come in my grace."
Who is Benedick? (Ado.2.3.27-30)
This play was inspired by historical events
What is Macbeth?
This document was assembled by Shakespeare's friends after his death
What is the First Folio?
Telling a lie but convincing yourself it isn't a lie, often for a "good purpose"
What is equivocation?
"Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee?
But yet I’ll make assurance double sure
And take a bond of fate"
Who is Macbeth? (Mac.4.1.93-95)
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear."
Who is Puck/Robin Goodfellow? (MND.5.1.440-443)
In Much Ado About Nothing, there is an underlying theme of this concerning women
What is infidelity?
This is a structure of 10 beats
What is Iambic Pentameter?
This word is used when casually addressing someone of equal or lower status in a conversation
What is "thee/thou"?
"What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid.
To you, your father should be as a god"
Who is Theseus? (MND.1.1.47-48)
"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty."
Who is Lady Macbeth? (Mac.1.5.47-50)
In a speech given by this character, Shakespeare toys with mocking poets
Who is Theseus?
This was a documentation of British history
What are the Holinshed Chronicles?
This word is used when addressing someone of higher status in a conversation
What is "you"?
"Give not this rotten orange to your friend.
She’s but the sign and semblance of her honor.
Behold how like a maid she blushes here!"
Who is Claudio? (Ado.4.1.32-34)
"A dear happiness to women. They would
else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor."
Who is Beatrice? (Ado.1.1.126-127)
These are the locations of each play
Where is Messina, Italy (Much Ado About Nothing), Scotland and England (Macbeth), and Athens, Greece (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Foreshadowing an event, example used in class was of the gun on the mantle
What is Chekhov's gun?
This is the lineage of Banquo's "descendants"
What is the Stuart Line?
"Marry, sir, they have committed false
report; moreover, they have spoken untruths;
secondarily, they are slanders"
Who is Dogberry? (Ado.5.1.225-227)
"O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou mayst revenge—O slave!"
These are the three prophecies given by the Weird Sisters in their SECOND interaction with Macbeth
What are beware Macduff, none born of woman shall harm Macbeth, and Macbeth will be in power until Birnam Wood descends on Dunsinane?