| How was the acting profession in Shakespeare’s time viewed? | bad reputations, grouped with thieves, blamed for missing things |
| In which major literary genres did Shakespeare write plays? | dramas, comedies, tragedies, romance |
| Shakespeare’s theater was built by the money of which nobleman, and what was the theater’s name? | Lord Chamberlain, Globe on Thames River |
| What philosophy was Sir Thomas More strongly influenced by? | humanism |
| How many wives did Henry VIII have? | 6 |
| The daughters of Henry VIII who also became queen | Mary, Elizabeth |
| King James was known for commissioning the translation of which major literary work? | The Bible |
| Who was Guy Fawkes? What was his plan? | he tried to overthrow the King, the Gunpowder Plan |
| Who authored the book Demonology? | King James I |
| What kinds of plays used allegory to teach a lesson? | Morality plays |
| What were “miracle plays”? | enactments of Christian stories |
| What does the word Renaissance mean? | humanistic revival |
| In what ways did the Renaissance change England? | it brought back art, literature, architecture, and learning |
| What do the witches prophecy? | Macbeth will be names Thane of Cawdor and later King |
| In Scene II what does Duncan order Ross to do? | name Macbeth Thane of Cawdor |
| How does Lady Macbeth first find out that Duncan is coming to her castle? | a letter from Macbeth |
| What does the greeting from Scene V show us about Lady Macbeth? | she will do anything for Macbeth to be king now |
| How does Macbeth and his wife ensure that Duncan’s guards will be blamed for his death? | they leave the daggers near them and smudge his blood on them |
| What does “I have no spurs to prick the sides of my intent” reveal about Macbeth? | he has a conscience; he feels guilty |
| Why is Lady Macbeth unable to kill Duncan herself? | she thinks he looks like her father |
| Why is Lady Macbeth forced to put the daggers near the guards? | Macbeth goes crazy and brings the daggers back with him after killing Duncan and is unable to return to the scene of the crime |
| Why does Shakespeare put “the porter scene” after the killing of Duncan? | as a sort of breather because killing a king in a play was never done; it also reflected on Macbeth’s crimes |
| How is Macduff’s warm greeting to Macbeth in Scene III an example of dramatic irony in this tragedy? | we know that Macduff knows something about Macbeth’s story is questionable but Macbeth doesn’t know Macduff suspects him |
| How does Macbeth persuade the murderers to kill Banquo? | he tells them that Banquo made them murderers |
| What does Hecate say is “mortal’s chiefest enemy”? | security |
| What happens to Macbeth when he sees the ghost at dinner? | he looses it; he makes outbursts and speaks to him out loud in front of everybody |
| Why does Banquo have hope that his prophecy will come true? | Macbeth was named Thane of Cawdor moments after the witches told him, so his prophecy must be true as well |
| Why do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth say they envy Duncan? | Duncan is able to sleep and be peaceful; no guilty conscience |
| In scene II Lady Macduff says that all traitors are… | dishonest men |
| What do Macbeth and Macduff have in common at the end of Act IV? | both murdered somebody (Macbeth literally and Macduff takes blame for murder of his family) |
| What does Lady Macbeth try to wash away? | the blood from her hands |
| What line from Scene III reveals Macbeth’s overconfidence? | “The mind I sway by and the heart I bearShall never sag nor shake with fear” |
| What does “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon on the stage/ It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?” reveal about Macbeth? | his whole life he has made a fool of himself. he is emotionless |
| “I have given suck, and know how tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me” | evil |
| “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” | crazy |
| “I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and a chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round.” | persuasive, evil |
| “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath” | sly, evil |
| “Sit my worthy friends: my lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth: pray you sit. The fit is momentary, upon a thought he will again be well.” | anxious, concealing, fear |
| comic relief | comic episodes in a literary drama to offset more serious sections (i.e. porter scene) |
| character flaw | limitation, imperfection, phobia, problem or deficiency in a character that would otherwise be functional (i.e. Macbeth) |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows something the characters don’t (i.e. Macduff knows about Macbeth) |
| foil | character who contrasts with another (i.e. Macbeth and Macduff) |
| tragedy | play dealing with tragic events and an unhappy ending usually with the downfall of the main character |
| tragic hero | character who makes a judgement error that leads to his destruction (i.e. Macbeth) |
| Major themes | “Fair is foul, foul is fair”, borrowed robes |
| Macbeth beginning to end | hero to villain |
Shakespeare, Elizabethan Era, Hamlet, Macbeth Test
November 8, 2019