When was Macbeth first performed? | 1606 |
What was shortly discovered before the first performance of Macbeth? | The Gunpowder Plot |
When was the Gunpowder Plot? | 1605 |
What was the Gunpowder Plot? | A failed assassination of King James I by a group of Catholics |
What is Macbeth based upon? | The real life feudal 11th century Scottish king who ruled from 1040-1057 |
Where did Shakespeare find factual information about Macbeth? | The Holinshed Chronicles |
Who is King James I thought to be a descendant of? | Banquo |
When did King James I ascend the throne? | 1603 |
When did King James I pass the Witchcraft Act? | 1604 |
When did King James I publish his book? | 1597 |
What is the name of King James I’s book? | Demonology |
What did King James I oversee? | The Berwick Witch Trials |
What type of play is Macbeth? | A tragedy |
What does harmatia mean? | A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of hero or heroine |
“Fair is foul and… | foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air” |
“Stars, hide your fires!… | Let not light see my black and deep desires” |
“Unsex me here And fill me from… | the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty” |
“Vaulting ambition, which… | o’erleaps itself And falls on the other” |
“I dare do all that may… | become a man; Who dares do more, is none” |
“If we should fail?// We fail?… | But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail” |
“Is this a dagger which I see before me… | The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee” |
“Methought I heard a voice cry… | Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep” |
“Thou hast it now – King, Cawdor, Glamis, all… | and I fear, Thou play’dst most foully for’t” |
“Upon my head they placed… | a fruitless crown and barren sceptre in my gripe” |
“Full of… | scorpions is my mind” |
Macbeth KO
December 14, 2019