Macbeth
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Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
http://www.globe-theatre.org.uk/globe-theatre-owners.htm
1. How many owners of the original Globe Theater were there?
* http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
* http://absoluteshakespeare.com/sonnets/sonnets.htm
2. What three categories of plays did Shakespeare write?
3-5. List the title of one play from each category.
Map of England http://www.bardware.com/bardware/facts.html
Find this page, locate the maps link, and copy and paste into your MS Word document the small map.
6. What are the names of the towns in Scotland named on the map?
7. In what country is Dover located?
8. What is the name of the island on the map?
In other links about Shakespeare on this page find and answer the following:
9. How many plays were in the first folio?
10. Who collaborated with Shakespeare in Two Noble Kinsmen?
11. What year was he born?
12. What year was he christened?
13. Who did he marry?
14. What year did he marry?
15. Who was his first child?
16. When was she christened?
17. Who were the twins?
18. When were they christened?
19. When was "Venus and Adonis" published?
20. When was "Lucrece" published?
21. When did the Globe Theatre open?
22. When did the Globe Theatre burn down?
23. When did Shakespeare die?
24. When was the first folio published?
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.htm
25. In his will, how much money did Shaespeare leave for the poor?
26.Describe the time period known as the "lost years".
27. Why did the Chamberlain's Men change their name to the King's Men?
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Terms for the Study of Shakespeare
Play: a narrative dialogue between characters meant to be produced
(with author's directions but no interpretation or direct comment)
Tragedy: play in which audience sympathizes with protagonist and has a sad ending.
Comedy: play in which the audience is superior to the protagonist and has a happy ending.
Prose: Not poetry
Rhyme: same sound on last accented syllable, vowel precedes different consonant.
Couplet: unit of 2 lines
Quatrain: unit of 4 lines
Sestet: unit of 6 lines
Rhythm: accents of words falling at regular intervals.
Iamb(ic): poetic foot ( )
Pentameter: 5 beats to a line
Caesure: pause - replaces unstressed syllable.
Blank verse: five-foot, iambic, unrhymed poetry.
Formal Poetry: poetry with patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
Sonnet: 14 line poem of iambic pentameter expressing thought or emotion.
Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet: sonnet with 14 lines (8&^) and rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde
Shakespearean sonnet: 14 line sonnet (4&4&4&2) and rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
Imagery: re-creation of (5) sense impressions
Simile: comparison between 2 unlike objects, usually with "like" or "as".
Metaphor: an implied comparison.
Personification: (person) giving human qualities to non living things.
Apostrophe: personification in which an object is addressed.
Paradox: contradictory statement.
Oxymoron: combination of paradoxes.
Pun: Play on words.
Malapropism: ridiculous misuse of words (especially of similar sound).
Irony: twist of events (usually tragic).
Chorus: (prologue-beginning/epilogue-end) a character who speaks the prologue &/or epilogue and comments on action.
Soliloquy: a speech by a character meant to be heard only by the audience and to reveal his inner thoughts.
Allusion: reference to people, places, etc. in previous literature or history
Four humours: blood - loving, phlegm - lacking in drive, choler (yellow bile) - quick-tempered, melancholy (black bile) - sad.
Stichomythia: (artificial) style in which each character speaks one line
Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot
Britannia - The Gunpowder Plot: http://www.britannia.com/history/kaboom.html
British History - Civil War & Revolution - The Gunpowder Plot: www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_robinson_01.shtml
The Gunpowder Plot - Parliament and Treason 1605: http://www.gunpowderplot.parliament.uk/adults_index.htm
Gunpowder Plot Society - Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot: http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/news/1998_04/macbeth.htm
Macbeth Navigator - Equivocation: http://www.clicknotes.com/macbeth/Equiv.html
Tuft's Department of Drama and Dance - Macbeth: http://ase.tufts.edu/drama-dance/balch/Macbeth/default.htm
UK Parliament - The Gunpowder Plot: www.parliament.uk/faq/gunpowder_plot.cfm
King James
King James book on Demonology
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