| Social status of Macduff, Lennox, Ross,Menteith, Angus, Caithness; synonym for peers | Noblemen |
| Where Malcolm flees after Duncan’s murder (II.iii) | England |
| The songs in III.v were added from the play The Witch by Thomas _______. A scholar believed to have interpolated Hecate’s scenes (III.v and IV.i) | Middleton |
| Location of the palace of the King of Scotland (III.i) | Forres |
| The traditional coronation site for Scottish kings; Macbeth goes there to be invested (II.iv.40) | Scones |
| Scottish nobleman; one of the rebels who says of Macbeth: “Some say he’s mad; others, that lesser hate him, / Do call it valiant fury;…” (V.ii.15-16) | Caithness |
| Open tract of wasteland covered with heather or low shrubs; setting for the witches’ appearances (I.iii) | Heath |
| Second witch’s answer to the question of when they’ll meet again: “When the _____’s done, / When the battle’s lost and won.” (I.i.3-4) | hurly burly |
| Poetic word for nothing, worthless, or useless (III.ii.6) | nought |
| Macbeth’s father (I.iii.73) | Sinel |
| Earl of Northumberland; general of English forces | Siward |
| Wood outside Macbeth’s castle; rebels cut tree branches to approach the castle, thus fulfilling one of the prophecies for Macbeth’s defeat (V.iv) | Birnam |
| First three characters to appear in Macbeth | Witches |
| Country ruled by Duncan | Scotland |
| His ambition to be king leads him to commit murder | Macbeth |
| Macbeth’s castle (I.v) | Inverness |
| Signal for Macbeth to go to Duncan’s chamber (II.i.69-72) | Bell |
| Good king under whom Scotland flourishes; his two sons flee the country after his murder | Duncan |
| Macbeth’s title by his father’s death (I.iii.73) | Glamis |
| “So ____ and fair a day I have not seen: (I.iii.39); use of the terms fair and ____ represents the confusion of good and evil; “Fair is ____ , and ____ is fair.” (I.i.11) | Foul |
| House martin: type of swallow; often builds its nest in churches; Duncan and Banquo note its presence at Inverness, indicating peace and harmony (I.vi.4-11) | Marlets |
| Scottish nobleman who reports the nearness of rebel forces and their burning desire for revenge (V.ii.1-5) | Mentieth |
| Lady Macbeth expresses her belief that Macbeth will be unable to commit murder: “Yet do I fear thy ________/ it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” (I.v.14-15) | Nature |
| Lady Macbeth’s relative whom Duncan resembles, preventing her from murdering Duncan (II.ii.11-15) | Father |
| Heavily armed horsemen; “kerns and ___________” (I.ii.15) | Gallowglasses |
| Number of Acts in Shakespeare’s tragedies | Five |
| Macbeth duels with Macduff, who kills him and cuts off his “cursed _______”; (V.viii.66) traditional punishment for traitors | Head |
| English king; descendant of Banquo. (IV.i.123-136) | James |
| Specific term for murdering a king | Regicide |
| Second and third apparitions (IV.i) are both visions of a | Child |
| England’s northernmost county; Siward is its Earl | Northumberland |
| Macbeth indicates utter disillusionment in his famous speech: “Out, out brief ______!” (V.v.25) | Candle |
| Dramatic device; actor alone on stage delivers thoughts aloud | Soliloquy |
| Common word for poetic “ope” in abbreviated form (II.iii.68) | Open |
| What Lady Macbeth fears Macbeth’s response to Duncan’s murder will make them (II.ii.41-42) | Mad |
| Rebel’s term for Macbeth throughout Act V | Tyrant |
| Roused from a drunken sleep to answer knocking at the gate of Macbeth’s castle (II.iii) | Porter |
| Type of children Macbeth proudly tells Lady Macbeth to “Bring forth _______ only” (I.vii.80) | Men |
| Lennox sarcastically implies that Macbeth’s pity causes Duncan to end up ___________ (III.vi.1-4) | Dead |
| Shakespeare’s poetic line, Iambic Pentameter, commonly called Blank ________ | Verse |
| Macbeth begins and ends with Scotland fighting a Civil __________ | War |
| “his brandished steel” (I.ii.19) refers to Macbeth’s __________ | Shield |
| In the Elizabethan era, monarchs ruled by Divine _______ | Right |
| The Old Man’s blessing for Ross and others like him (II.iv.52-53), foreshadowing the alliance with England. He hopes to “make…friends of _____” | Foes |
| Military rank of Macbeth and Banquo | General |
| Lady Macbeth’s guilt takes the form of sleepwalking and trying to wash invisible _______ from her hands (V.i) | Blood |
| Macbeth’s only reply to the news of his wife’s death is: “She should have died ________” (V.v.19) | Hereafter |
| Seeing Banquo’s __________ completely unnerves Macbeth and causes Lady Macbeth to end the banquet (III.iv) | Ghost |
| The main theme of Macbeth is the devastating effect of the protagonist choosing _________ over good | Evil |
| Scottish nobleman and rebel against Macbeth; says Macbeth no longer has the devotion of his soldiers but they “move only in command” (V.ii.19-23) | Angus |
| Officer who attends Macbeth (V.iii) | Siward |
| Macbeth: “I have almost forgot the taste of fears” and “I have supped full with ________” (V.v.10 and 14) | Horrors |
| Dramatic device; Duncan’s thoughts on the difficulty of knowing by a man’s face what is running through his mind (I.iv) | Irony |
| King Macbeth’s castle; fortified castle at which Macbeth takes his last stand against the rebels (V) | Dunsinane |
| Sixteenth century author of Chronicles, the source of the major portion of Macbeth’s plot | Holinshed |
| Scottish nobleman; reports beginning of the rebellion and fate of Macduff’s family (IV.iii.233-236) | Ross |
| Discovers Duncan’s murder, refuses to attend Macbeth’s coronation, flees Scotland, returns with Malcolm’s army, avenges his family | Macduff |
| Relationship to Macbeth; addressed as his “dearest partner of greatness” (I.v.9); shares his ambition | Wife |
| Scottish nobleman; goes with Macduff to Macbeth’s castle the night of Duncan’s murder; Macduff tells him of his suspicions about Macbeth’s guilt (II.iii) | Lennox |
| Duncan’s younger son; flees to Ireland after his father’s murder | Donalbian |
| Duncan’s eldest son; flees to England, befriends King Edward, tries to raise an army to unseat Macbeth and place himself on the throne (IV.iii) | Malcom |
| Archaic term meaning “coming soon” (I.i.10) | Anon |
| General in Scottish army; functions as Macbeth’s foil; witches prophesize he will be father of kings (I.iii) | Banquo |
| Manner of Lady Macbeth’s death (V.viii,81-83) | Suicide |
| Banquo’s son; flees after his father’s murder (III.iii) | Fleance |
| Clan chieftain; noble rank lower than an Earl | Thane |
| Goddess of witchcraft and sorcery; appears in scene not written by Shakespeare (III.v) | Hecate |
| Thane executed for his disloyalty to King Duncan; Macbeth is invested with this title (I.ii.59-60 and I.iii.110-130) | Cawdor |
| As Birnam Wood approaches, Macbeth proclaims he is “aweary of the _____”(V.v.54) | Sun |
| Archaic term for a sound or prosperous political state; the public good or welfare; another form of commonwealth: common ____ or “sickly” ____ (V.ii.32) [abbreviation] | Weal |
| English King with holy healing touch who helps Malcolm reclaim Scottish throne (IV.iii.154-175) | Edward |
| Macbeth laments that life “is a tale/Told by an ____/ full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing.” (V.v.28-30) | Idiot |
| A hypothetical action emphasizing Lady Macbeth’s ruthlessness and cruelty (I.vii.61-64) | Dashed |
| One who steals the throne from the rightful ruler (V.viii.68) | Usurper |
| “Macduff was from his mother’s womb/Untimely _______” (V.viii.19-20) | Ripped |
| “A ________ of the mind, a false creation” (II.i.46) matches one in Macbeth’s possession | Dagger |
| Banquo and Macduff are character _____ for Macbeth | Foils |
| Dramatic device; actor turns away from others onstage to speak thoughts aloud | Aside |
| New title Malcolm bestows on his “thanes and kinsmen” (V.viii.75) who bravely fought with him | Earls |
| Deep affection Duncan believes he and Macbeth share (I.iv.30) | Love |
| Macduff’s order to Macbeth on the battlefield; before and after “hellhound” (V.viii.4) | Turn |
| Internal organ and ingredient in witches’ brew (IV.i.23) | Maw |
| Lady Macbeth contemptuously tells Macbeth that the “___ of childhood…fears a painted devil” (II.ii.65-66) | Eye |
Macbeth Crossword
August 12, 2019