Macbeth Part 1 Test Asselta 3/26/26

1599

Year the Globe Theater was built

The Wooden “O”

nickname for the Globe Theater

5 sides

how many sides of the Globe Theater are for the audience

3 sides

how many sides of the Globe Theater are for the performers

1st Level = Main acting

2nd Level = Orchestra & Distant Scenes (if an actor… you play in orchestra too)

3rd Level = Far away scenes

each of the 3 levels/floors in the Globe Theater and purpose

True

T or F: Only boys played roles in plays and only men could attend the plays

APRON

part that sticks out on floor on 1st level

ARRAS

behind the apron in the Globe Theatre. Purpose = hide scenes they could not perform infront of audience

Wooden Trap

wooden platform that actors would appear out of behind the apron

Done outdoors in daytime during late spring, summer, & early fall.

when were plays performed in the Globe Theatre

a flag on top of the Globe

what is used to indicate what type of play is being performed in the Globe Theatre

1. Love →if predominant, = comedy

2. Political →if predominant, = History

3. Societal →if predominant = Tragedy

3 themes in all Shakespeare plays and which it aligns with play-type wise

1. Solliloquy

2. Disease Imagery

3. Aside

4. Structural Climax

4 conventions Shakespeare is known for

Main character gives a lengthy speech while alone on stage (convention)

• 1. Characters inner conflicts are demonstrated

• 2. Shows the characters reaction to what is happening

• 3. Demonstrates the character’s CHARACTER

Define Solliloquy

Disease Imagery (convention)

imagery using disease

Aside (convention)

piece of dialogue spoken to the audience that ONLY the audience can here

Structual Climax (convention)

point in Act 3 where the protagonist is at the height of his good fortune right before his dramatic reversal

Elizabethian Revenge Tragedy

Hamlet is a ___________ __________  ____________

1. Hero has not created a situation in which he finds himself

2. The opening is a horrible situation.

   1. The hero does not take fatal steps, but is confronted with appauling/shocking facts

3. The VILLIAN is the initiator of the action and the resolution (what comes at the end), not the Hero.

   1. Therefore, the hero is committed to counteraction to response, rather than creation. ★THE HERO PLAYS THE WIATING ROLE ★

4. Denouncement/Falling Action comes about through the villian.

   1. The revenger takes the opportunity provided by the vilian

5. Hero descends to the moral level of his opponent.

   1. The vengeance is as hideous as the crime

5 Steps to an Elizabethian Revenge Tragedy

1. Famous for his dramatic technique of conveying a sense of the characters psyche (psychological identity)

   1. Shows how character’s mind’s work

2. His extended use of language

3. Perfected blank verse, heroic couplet, & iambic pentameter

4. Famous for wordplay →plays with words

   1. ex. uses the word “effect” 7 times in 1 little passage, but as an adjective, noun, verb, etc.

5. Conveyed his thoughts and ideas through dramatic force written for oral performance

   1. He wanted them read aloud

5 Shakespeare contributions

Stratford. Upon Avon, England. Small market town = birthplace

where was Shakespeare born

Apr. 23rd, 1564 (baptized the 26th)

when was Shakespeare presumed to be born

True

T or F: did the Bubonic plague exist during Shakespeare’s time

Hamnet & Judith

Shakespeare had 3 kids. 2 were twins. Twin’s names = ________

Latin, Greek, Rhetoric, Logic, and Public Speaking

what did Shakespeare study

Ovid’s “Metamorphosoes”

what inspired some of Shakespeare’s later works

London

Shakespeare found opportunities for theatre and became an actor and playwright when he moved to _______

During Henry VIII play when there was a misfire in a cannon

how did Globe Theatre burn down

The Tempest ; Farewell = theme

Shakespeare’s last play written. And what was a common theme for his final plays

Folio

after 36 years, Shakespeare’s first ________ was published (consisted of 36 preserved plays)

Shakespeare

the greatest writer in the history of the world

37 plays

154 sonnets

2 long narratives

how many plays, sonnets, and long narratives did Shakespeare write

1700 words (repeated in 20,000 contemporary songs)

how many words did Shakespeare make up that we use now

40,000 words

how many words in Shakespeare’s plays

artist ; enginneer

Shakespeare held the occupations of being an _______ & __________

1. His writing is studied universally

2. It is timeless. Does not go out of fashion

3. His image making devices

3 reasons Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the world

1. The Tempest →Last Work

2. Romeo and Juliet →greatest love story

3. King Leir →most complex

4. Hamlet →most biographical. Most quoted

5. Macbeth

Shakespeare’s most well known plays and their achievements

True MOTHERFUCKER

T or F: Shakespeare was a devout catholic

120 songs

how many songs did Shakespeare write

The Earl of Essex →Fundamentalist (hated theatre)

who did Shakespeare hate and portrayed him as Claudius in Hamlet

“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

“Tomorrow and tomorrow…