| Shakespeare’s hometown | Stratford-Upon-Avon |
| Shakespeare born (year) | 1564 |
| Shakespeare died (year) | 1616 |
| Shakespeare’s wife | Anne Hathaway |
| # of children | 3 |
| Children’s names | Hamnet, Susanna, Judith |
| Shakespeare’s theatre company | The King’s Men (formerly Lord Chamberlain’s Men) |
| # of plays | 37 plays |
| # of Sonnets | 154 sonnets |
| Types of plays written by Shakespeare | tragedies, comedies, histories |
| Couplet | Two lines in which the last words rhyme, usually at the end of a scene to indicate the scene is finishing |
| Paradox | A contradiction that proves to be true |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds |
| Antithesis | A contrast or opposition of thoughts, usually in two phrases, clauses, or sentences |
| Metaphor | An analogy (comparison) identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which a similarity between 2 objects is directly expressed using the words “like” or “as.” |
| Aside | A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration |
| Dramatic irony | The words or acts of a character may carry a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present |
| Motif | A recurrent repetition of some word, phrase, situation, or idea |
| Personification | A figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human qualities |
| “Holinshed’s Chronicle” | The play “Macbeth” is based on |
| Witch to other witches | “When the hurlyburly’s done, / When the battle’s lost and won.” |
| Witches | “Fair is foul, and foul is fair. / Hover through the fog and filthy air.” |
| Captain to King Duncan | “For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name–/ Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel…/ Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops, / and fixed his head upon our battlements.” |
| Macbeth to Banquo | “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” |
| Banquo to Macbeth | “So withered and, and so wild in their attire, / that look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth…/ You should be women, / yet your beards forbid me to interpret / that you are so.” |
| Macbeth to the witches | “The Thane of Cawdor lives, / A prosperous gentleman; and to be King / Stands not within the prospect of belief, / No more than to be Cawdor.” |
| Banquo to Macbeth | “The earth hath bubbles as the water has, / and these are of them. Whither are they vanished?” |
| Macbeth [Aside] | “This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, / Why hath it given be earnest of success, / Commencing in a truth? … My thought, whose murder yet is but fansastical, / Shakes so my single state of man that function / is smothered in surmise, and nothing is / But what is not.” |
| Malcolm to King Duncan | “Nothing in his life / became him like the leaving it.” |
| King Duncan to Macbeth | “I have begun to plant thee, and will labor / to make thee full of growing.” |
| Macbeth [Aside] | “The Prince of Cumberland! / That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, / for in my way it lies.” |
| Macbeth [Aside] | “Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires: / The eye wink at the hand; yet that be / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” |
| Lady Macbeth to herself | “Yet I do fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness / to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / the illness should attend it.” |
| Lady Macbeth to herself | “The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / under my battlements.” |
| Lady Macbeth to herself | “Come, thick night, / and pall thee in dunnest smoke of hell, / That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark / to cry ‘Hold, hold!'” |
| Lady Macbeth to Macbeth | “To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / You hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower / But be the serpent under’t… Only look up clear. / To alter favor ever is to fear.” |
| King Duncan to others | “The air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / unto our gentle senses.” |
| Lady Macbeth to King Duncan | “All our service / in every point twice done, and then done double, / Were poor and single business to contend / Against those honors deep and broad.” |
| Macbeth to himself | “If th’ assassination / Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, / With his surcease, success; that but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all–here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We’d jump the life to come.” |
| Macbeth to himself | “He’s here in double trust: / First, I am his kinsman and his subject, / Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, / Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.” |
| Macbeth to himself | “I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intend, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself / and falls on th’ other-“ |
| Lady Macbeth to Macbeth | “Wouldst thou have that / Which thou esteem’s the ornament of life, / And live like a coward in thine own esteem, / Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’ / Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?” |
| Macbeth to Lady Macbeth | “I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none.” |
| Lady Macbeth to Macbeth | “What beast was ‘t then / That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man; / And to be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man.” |
| Macbeth to Lady Macbeth | “I am settled, and bend up / each corporal agent to this terrible feat. / Away, and mock the time with fairest show: / False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” |
| Shakespearean Tragedy | classification of drama written by William Shakespeare which has a noble protagonist, who is flawed in some way, placed in a stressful heightened situation and ends with a fatal conclusion. |
| Tragic Hero | main character whose death affects the course of the empire |
| Tragic Flaw | Hamartia; tragic hero’s fault or defect that leads to his death |
| Recognition/Premonition of Doom | Anagnorsis; the incident in the plot in which the main character discovers some major piece of information that profoundly affects his actions |
| Unity of Action | beginning, middle, and end of the plot connects a series of unfortunate events that are interrelated |
| Emotional Cleansing | Catharsis; reason we feel good about the tragic events that occurred in the play |
| Fate | the supposed force, power, or plan which predetermines one’s destiny |
MACBETH (aka “The Scottish Play”) – Act I Quiz
November 12, 2019