MacBeth :(( Flashcards
what nickname is Shakespeare known
Bard of Avon or the bard
where and when was Shakespeare born
stratford-upon-avon, united kingdom
april 1564
on what holiday was Shakespeare born
St. George’s Day
who were Shakespeare’s parents
John and Mary (nee Arden) Shakespeare
whom did Shakespeare marry?
Anne Hathaway
who was the queen of England during Shakespeare’s life time?
Queen Elizabeth I
how do we refer to the early years of Shakespeare’s life?
Shakespeare’s lost years
when did Shakespeare leave Stratford for London?
mid to late 1580’s
how many plays did Shakespeare write during his years in London?
37 plays
in addition to plays what popular form of literature did Shakespeare write?
sonets
what tragic event happened in London in the 1590’s?
the plague
what tragedy befell Shakespeare’s family?
his 11 year old son died, Hamnet
what was the name of Shakespeare’s theater?
The globe theater
Who were the “King’s men”?
acting company William Shakespeare belonged to
what was the first play performed in the Globe?
Julius Caesar
what was the roof of the theater called?
the heavens
where did Shakespeare get many of his ideas for plays?
classical authors like Ovid and Seneca
English historians
nature
what happened to his theater in 1613?
burned down
why did a flag fly over the theater? what did it mean?
black-tragedy
red-history
white-comedy
How long did the plays during this time usually last?
a little over 2 hours
what skills did Elizabethan actors have to have?
good memory own stunts loud voice over exaggerated gestures sword fighting skils
why were all the actors males?
it was unseemly for women to act there
where and when did Shakespeare die?
April 23, 1616 Stratford- Upon-Avon, UK
Three witches wait for Macbeth’s arrival
Heath
Malcolm questions Macduff’s loyalty to Scotland
England
Macbeth cowers from Banquo’s ghost
Dunsinane
Soldiers cut branches to hold in front of them
Birnham
MacDuff’s son realizes that the murderers will kill him
Fife
Lady Macbeth carries a single candle on her evening walk
Dunsinane
Duncan greets his hostess
Inverness
Macbeth kills two chamberlains
Dunsinane
Sweno’s men will be buried
Inchcolme
Scottish kings are crowned
Scone
Who strikes upon the bell?
Lady Macbeth signally it’s time to kill Duncan
What word is Macbeth unable to utter?
Amen- because he just killed Duncan
Where is Sweno king?
Norway
How does Lady Macbeth learn about the prophecy?
Macbeth’s letter
What does Duncan see above Dunsinane’s portal
bird’s nest- he says it’s a pleasant place
Who was not “born of woman”?
MacDuff
Where does Lady Macbeth see “damned spots”
her hands- the blood of Duncan
Whom does the porter admit to Macbeth’s castle?
MacDuff
Who claims to be willing to dash a child’s brains out against a wall?
Lady Macbeth
What gift does Duncan give Lady Macbeth?
diamond
What bloody object appears to MAcbeth
dagger
whose horse goes wild and breaks out of its stall?
Duncan
who claims to lust after wives, daughters, matrons and maids?
Malcolm
Who claims to have “hangman’s hands”?
Macbeth
What is Macbeth’s title at the beginning of the play?
Thane of Glamis
“Keep it not from me quickly let me have it”
MacDuff
“We will proceed no further in this business.”
Macbeth
So that I say
He has borne all things well. And I do think That had he Duncan’s sons under his key(As, An’t please heaven, he shall not) they should find what ‘twere to kill a father. So should Fleance
Lenox
What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid in an auger hole, may rush and seize us?
Let’s away.
Donalbain
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements
Lady MacBeth
Fair and noble hostess,
We are your guests tonight.
Duncan
But this place is too cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further,
Porter
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence
The life o’ th’ building.
MacDuff
More needs she the divine than the physician.
doctor
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death;
And so his knell is knolled.
Siward
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honor named.
Malcolm
When shall we three meet again?
withces
New honors come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold
But with the aid of use.
Banquo
Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm.
Lady MacDuff
Macduff calls__________ a hell-kite
Macbeth
_______ is aware that Macbeth’s murder or the drunk chamberlains was a plot to cover up his role in regicide
Banqou
_________ king of England, contrasts Macbeth’s crimes by healing the sick.
Edward
Malcolm announces that the crowning will take place at ____
Scone
____- distinguishes himself by dying nobly after Duncan condemns him as a rebel
Cawdor
Malcolm asks the Thane of ______ why he left his wife and child in Scotland
Fife (Macduff)
Macbeth sends a servant to bid Lady Macbeth to strike the ___ when his drink is ready.
bell
_____ commends the witches for their work on the ption
Hecate
As Birnam Wood moves to _________, Macbeth’s confidence begins to fail.
Dunsinane
Mabeth faces Macduff, drops his _________ and fights until his death
shield
Welcome hither.
I have begun to plant thee, and will labor
To make thee full of growing. (to BANQUO) Noble Banquo,
That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
No less to have done so, let me infold thee
And hold thee to my heart.
Duncan to Macbeth and Banqou- has great plans for them
@ Palace of Forres
Whence is that knocking?
How is ’t with me when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Macbeth talking to himself after killing Duncan, feeling guilt hyperbole
@Dunsinane
A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And munched, and munched, and munched. “Give me,”
quoth I.
“Aroint thee, witch!” the rump-fed runnion cries.
Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ th’ Tiger;
But in a sieve I’ll thither sail,
And like a rat without a tail,
I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.
Witch to the other witches about stirring up a storm to maybe kill the sailors
@ the Heath
What will you do? Let’s not consort with them.
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy. I’ll to England.
Malcolm to Donalbain about leaving to go to England while Donalbain goes to Ireland, fearing their safety
@Dunsinane
Well then, now
Have you considered of my speeches? Know
That it was he, in the times past, which held you
So under fortune, which you thought had been
Our innocent self. This I made good to you
In our last conference, passed in probation with you,
How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments,
Who wrought with them, and all things else that might
To half a soul and to a notion crazed
Say, “Thus did Banquo.”
Macbeth to the murderer about killing Banqou and Fleance
@palace of Forres
Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
witches preparing the cauldron
@a cavern
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
Lady Macbeth sleep walking talking about Duncan and his blood while the Doctor and the Lady Servant watch her
@Dunsinane
To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune
Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are,
There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood,
The nearer bloody.
Donalbain to Malcolm saying to go separate ways and family is the most dangerous
That has a name. But there’s no bottom, none,
In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters,
Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up
The cistern of my lust, and my desire
All continent impediments would o’erbear
That did oppose my will. Better Macbeth
Than such an one to reign.
Malcolm talking to Macduff about his lust to see if Macduff was loyal to Scotland
@England
Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.
Knock within
Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty. Come in time, have napkins enough about you, here you’ll sweat for ’t.
Knock within.
Knock, knock! Who’s there, in th’ other devil’s name?
Porter- drunk hears knocking says stuff about the farmer and how its hot and sweaty
@Dunsinane
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.
What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern’st good-night. He is about it.
The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms
Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets,
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
Lady Macbeth talking about the guards wine and this is the time Macbeth kills Duncan
She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth talking about his wife that just killed herself
describing life in metaphors
@Dunsinane
This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
Duncan to Banqou about Macbeth’s castle
@Dunsinane
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t. He that’s coming
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth talking about disguising their plan and being innocent is the way to go
@Dunsinane
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth saying if he has courage they won’t fail
@Dunsinane
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Witch saying something wicked is coming and it’s Macbeth @cavern
Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.
Come, put mine armor on. Give me my staff.
Seyton, send out.—Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
Come, sir, dispatch.—If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.—Pull ’t off, I say.—
What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug,
Would scour these English hence? Hear’st thou of them?
Macbeth to the Doctor saying he doesn’t want medicine for his wife because it won’t work, so he puts on his armor to fight
@Dunsinane
Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.
Murderer saying he killed Banqou and he’s in a dithc to Macbeth
@Dunsinane
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I 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 sending Macbeth a letter saying he’s too nice to get what he’s promised
@Dunsinane
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going,
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o’ th’ other senses,
Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There’s no such thing.
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o’er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate’s offerings, and withered murder,
Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives.
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Macbeth hallucinating a sword to Duncan’s room
@Dunsinane
Keep it not from me. Quickly let me have it
Macduff to Ross about the information Ross is withholding which is Macduff’s family was murdered
Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm.
Lady Macduff to a messenger warning her about danger to come @Fife
Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear’t before him.
Malcolm to the soldiers telling them to cut down wood and use it as camaflouge
@Birnham
Fair and noble hostess
We are your guest tonight
Duncan to Lady Macbeth about staying there
@Dunsinane
Why the, God’s soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to be a fairer death:
And so his knell is knolled.
Siward about his son dying in battle with wounds in the front which is noble
@Dunsinane
We will proceed no further in this business
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth saying he can’t kill Duncan anymore
Thou hast it now - King, Cawdor, Glamis, all
As the Weird Women promised, and I fear
Thou played’st most foully for it
Banqou to Macbeth suspecting him of killing Duncan
New honors come upon him
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold
But with the aid of use.
Banquo to Ross and Angus talking about Macbeth and how he’s acting strange
