Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater
Macbeth was written by:
William Shakespeare
"Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" contains an example of this, a repetition of initial consonant sounds.
alliteration
What lie does Macbeth tell Banquo about the weird sisters?
that he has not thought of them
Lady Macbeth realises her husband is now beyond her influence and control after he plots to kill this character and his son (name both).
Banquo and his son Fleance
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"
the weird sisters
King James I was interested in these supernatural beings.
Witches
In Act I, we learn that Scotland is being attacked by rebel forces and which other European country?
Norway
Before murdering Duncan, Macbeth sees an apparition of this.
dagger
Macbeth sees an apparition of this character at the dinner table.
Banquo
"Out, damned spot!"
Lady Macbeth
This is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
dramatic irony
Macbeth "unseams" this rebel "from the nave to th' chops."
Macdonwald
Macbeth and his wife frame these characters for Duncan's murder.
the sleeping guards
After seeing an apparition (don't say of what!) at the dinner table, Macbeth says that his mind is full of these.
scorpions
Act I: 'Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.
Lady Macbeth
Many of the scenes in Macbeth end with this, a two-line, end-rhymed grouping.
a rhyming couplet
After learning of her husband's prophecy, Lady Macbeth calls up evil witches to "unsex [her] here." She asks evil spirits to do this.
strip her of her weak feminine traits
Macbeth brings these bloody things to his wife after murdering Duncan.
bloody daggers
The apparition of the armed head that the witches show Macbeth tells him to "Beware this character."
Macduff, the Thane of Fife
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust."
Duncan
Shakespeare's plays were performed in this theatre.
The Globe
The witches greet Macbeth with these three titles.
Glamis, Cawdor, and king
Lady Macbeth's public reaction to hearing about Duncan's murder.
to faint
The witches' prophecy that Macbeth shall not be defeated until this comes over Dunsinane Hill comes to fruition.
Birnam Wood
"The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. ’Tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil."
Lady Macbeth
In Shakespeare's time, people believed in this, meaning that a king was God's anointed ruler.
the divine right of kings
The witches give Banquo this prophecy.
he will not be king, but his children will be
After murdering Duncan, Macbeth says a voice tells him he has done what?
"murdered Sleep"
This character kills Macbeth.
Macduff
"That is a step / On which I must fall down or else o’erleap, / For in my way it lies.
Macbeth
In Shakespeare's England, people believed in this, a perfect order to the universe (the natural and human worlds intertwined within it)
The Great Chain of Being
King Duncan names this character the Prince of Cumberland (heir to the throne).
Malcolm
Hecate, the goddess of witches, says that this is man's greatest enemy.
security
Macbeth does not fear Macduff due to this prophecy by the weird sisters.
that no man of woman born shall harm Macbeth
"Thou hast it now—king, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ’t."
Banquo
Macbeth is a ----- because his flaw causes his downfall.
a tragic hero
How Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan.
questioning his masculinity
This is the purpose of the porter.
comic relief
This device is used when the characters want to talk to the audience without the other characters on stage hearing what is said.
an aside
"Bleed, bleed poor country"
Macduff
This is the type of speech when only one person is standing on stage and speaks for a long time.
a soliloquy
____ says, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes".
one of the witches
Lady Macbeth doesn't kill Duncan herself because ----.
he looks like her father
Free Space.
Free Space.
"She would have died hereafter."
Macbeth
Complete this quote, name the speaker, and identify the subject of the statement: "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying _______."
What are nothing, Macbeth, and life?