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Shakespeare/ Macbeth
Shakespeare/ Macbeth Study Guide
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12th Grade
10/24/2010

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Anti-Stratfordian
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"Authorship Issue," said Shakespeare is a fraud
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Interlude
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a one-act play
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The Globe
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One of the 1st Elizabethan playhouses
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Tragedy
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A play when something major or tragic happens; comes to an unhappy ending
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Macduff
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Killed Macbeth; Thane; Family was murdered by Macbeth; One of the first to suspect the Macbeth murdered Duncan
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Dark Years
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the seven years Shakespeare disapeared
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Weird Sisters
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The 3 Witches
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The Wooden O
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Another one of the first Elizabethan playhouses
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Stratford-on-Avon
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Where Shakespeare was from
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Anne Hathaway
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Shakespeare's wife
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Warwickshire
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Exact place where Shakespeare was from
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1564
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Year of Shakespeare's birth
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Robert Greene
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Shakespeare's critic
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1587
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Shakespeare's appeared in London

 

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Henry VI
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first famous play
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The King's Men
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Shakespeare's acting company
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Groundling
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Poor, lower class people who stand on the ground during plays
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Hell (Stage Reference)
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under the stage
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Tiring House
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Dressing room, in the back wall
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Richard Burbage
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actor in Shakespeare's acting company
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Venus and Adonis
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Shakespeare's first famous work
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Duncan
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Killed by Macbeth
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Hecate
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Goddess of Witchcraft
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Thane
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a nobleman
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Porter
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The comedian doorman
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Cawdor/Glamis
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In the beginning Macbeth was the Thane of Gramis
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Malcolm
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Duncan's son
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Iambic Pentameter
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Rhythmic and meter in which poets and play-writes wrote in Elizabethan England; S is stressed, s in unstressed.
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Paradox
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Something that seems wrong, but proves to be true
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Meter
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Rhythm, Shakespeare wrote in
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Banqou
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Killed by Macbeth, Thane
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Prophecies
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Future told by the three witches
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King Lear
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Shakespeare's most famous tragedy
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Macbeth receives the title of this traitor
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Thane of Cawldor
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Lady Macbeth is doing this in her first appearance in the play
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Reading a letter from Macbeth
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King Duncan spends his final night at this place
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Macbeth's house
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This loyal nobleman discovers the body of Duncan
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Macduff
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These two men flee the murder scene, fearing for their own safety
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Malcolm and Donalbain
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Both of these men immediately suspect Macbeth of the murders
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Banquo and Macduff
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Macbeth meets with these men after learning Banquo will go on a short trip
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the murderers
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Macbeth sees this after learning that Fleance escaped his men
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Ghost of Banquo
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The witches allow Macbeth to see the future by this means
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He drinks the liquid and sees the future
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Of the final prophecies revealed to Macbeth, the first two actually referred to this man
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Macduff
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As a result of the prophecies, this woman and her family are murdered
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Lady Macbeth and her son
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Leaving his family behind, this man follows Malcolm to England
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Macduff
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These two people observe Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scence
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the doctor and gentlewoman
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Macbeth is told that this is advancing toward his castle
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The woods
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This is the name of Macbeth's servant
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Seyton
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Macbeth kills this young man late in the play
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Macduff's son
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These are the four metaphors used as comparison to life in the "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech
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brief cadle, poor player, walking shadow, tale
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Two of the names given Macbeth late in the play
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Hell-Hound Tyrant
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These two Scottish nobleman remain loyal to Malcolm
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Ross and Macduff
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This nobleman remains loyal to Macbeth
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