Shakespeare & Macbeth

Shakespeare & Macbeth Shakespeare  Birth His Life & Work . Place: . Date:  Family . Father: . Religion: . Married to:  Why it’s a “scandal” –

 Career . In London from ______to ______. Queen Elizabeth  English drama ______during her reign  ______& ______acting companies, such as Shakespeare’s , who were called ______. King James I  Changed the company’s name to ______ Return Home . When? ______. Dies ______(on his ______) . Relationship with wife? -

Theater in  Even famous actors were ______by city Elizabethan England fathers, but were ______with ______.

 The Globe

. Shakespeare calls it the “______”

. Groundlings =

. Plays performed during ______Shakespeare & Macbeth Historical Context  The real Macbeth . was not ______. ruled ______for ______years . Duncan was not ______. King James could trace his lineage to ______and possibly ______

 Kings James I . Shakespeare wrote to ______him . interested in ______& ______. some critics argue ______ The Gunpowder Plot . Plot to kill ______

The Play’s the Thing What you should know  the three K’s: ______, ______& ______before you read Macbeth  Three prophecies in Act 1 . . .  Macbeth’s crisis of conscience: internal conflict weighing the benefits of ______vs. ______ The Players . Macbeth -

. Lady Macbeth - . Banquo -  Fleance - . Macduff - . Duncan -  Malcolm -  Donalbain -

Shakespeare & Macbeth Drama Terminology Drama . Tells story through ______because ______, ______& ______heightened

 Dialogue . Soliloquy – long speech by a character ______on stage

. Monologue – long speech delivered to ______

. Aside - ______remark to another ______or the ______

. Chorus – single character or group of characters whose ______connect ______or represent ______of the community

 Tragedy – literary work depicting ______in which main character, who is ______and ______, comes to ______

. Tragic hero – person of ______whose tragic downfall is caused by ______

. Tragic flaw – error in ______or ______in a character that leads to ______or ______Shakespeare & Macbeth

Other Important Terms . Foil – person ______with another character in order to ______various features of ______personality

. Theme – ______

. Internal Conflict – ______the mind

. External Conflict – between a ______& an ______

. Paradox – statement that seems to ______but is ______

. Irony  Dramatic – ______knows something the ______do not

 Verbal – character says one thing but means ______

 Situational – the ______of the situation is the ______of what you expected Shakespeare & Macbeth

The Renaissance . From ______to ______. Literally defined as a ______. The English Renaissance saw a change in 

. Renewed interest in ______. Renewal of ______. “Renaissance Man or Woman” =

. Invented by ______in ______Printing Press . Changes induced by the printing press    

The Reformation & . England broke with the ______the Tudors . The reason for the break:

. As a result, Henry VIII ordered this catastrophic event: Shakespeare & Macbeth