Repurposed macbeth grade10-12
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This document provides background information on William Shakespeare and his play Macbeth. It discusses Shakespeare's life, career, and theaters. It then summarizes the basic plot of Macbeth, including the characters and their roles. Several themes of the play are also identified, such as ambition and the destruction of order. The document concludes with discussion questions and an activity where students analyze pictures from the play.
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- 2.  At the end of this unit, students should have:  read parts of the play, an understanding of the story and different elements of the plot.  produced a close analysis of extracts.  produced a piece of imaginative writing, demonstrating understanding.  an understanding of Shakespeare and his world.
- 3.  At the end of this lesson, students should be able to :  Know the basic plot, characters and themes of Macbeth  Know the three basic categories of Shakespearean texts  Show an improved understanding of the language used by Shakespeare
- 5.  What do you know about him?
- 6. Born: 23rd April 1564 Died: 23rd April 1616 Place: Stratford-on-Avon Mother: Mary Arden – daughter of a local gentry. Father: John Shakespeare – a glover and tenant farmer of yeoman class.
- 7.  Between the early 1590’s and 1620’s Shakespeare composed the most extraordinary body of works in the history of world drama.  He moved roughly from comedies to histories to tragedies.  His farewell to the stage was The Tempest.
- 8.  The Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.  A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997 approximately 230 metres from the site of the original theatre.
- 9. • Act II: Rising Action During the Rising Action, the basic conflict introduced in Act I is complicated by secondary conflicts and obstacles designed to keep our protagonist from reaching his or her goal, including lesser antagonists that can work together with or without the main antagonist. You may already know that your main character is going to live happily ever after, but she's going to have to work for it, and this is where it starts. • Act III: Climax Also known as the "turning point," the Climax marks a notable change, for better or worse, in the protagonist's journey towards their goal. With tragedy, the protagonist begins the story on top of world before everything begins to unravel, while comedies generally do the opposite. Quite simply, this is where the bulk of the drama or action takes place.
- 10. • Act IV: Falling Action During the Falling Action, the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist finally comes to a head, and a clear winner and loser are determined. This Falling Action may also contain a final moment of suspense, in which one or more possible outcomes are in doubt until the Resolution. • Act V: Dénoument or Resolution The Dénoument or Resolution ties up all the loose ends and concludes the story. All of the conflicts are resolved, the characters return to normalcy, and the viewer experiences an emotional release (catharsis). In traditional comedies, the Dénoument leaves the main character better off than she started, while traditional tragedies end in a catastrophe that leaves the protagonist a shell of his former self. Much like life, your story must be a roller coaster ride of action and emotion. A good rule of thumb is, for every positive event your protagonist experiences, it must immediately be followed up by a negative event. This dissonance must begin in Act II and reach a crescendo in Act III, before the Falling Action and Dénoument resolve your story and restore order to the world.
- 11. Shakespeare writes either in blank verse, in rhymed verse or in prose. Homework task: Do some research on the different ways Shakespeare writes. Write down a short explanation for each, include an example.
- 12.  It is said that Macbeth is a play ‘fit for a king’.  It is often referred to as ‘Macdeath’, and rarely by the name Macbeth – why?  Shakespeare is said to have used the spells of real witches in his text, purportedly angering the witches and causing them to curse the play. Thus, to say the name of the play inside a theatre is believed to doom the production to failure, and perhaps cause physical injury or death to cast members. A large mythology has built up surrounding this superstition, with countless stories of accidents, misfortunes and even deaths, all mysteriously taking place during runs of Macbeth (or by actors who had uttered the name)
- 13.  The story follows the moral decent of Macbeth, as he is persuaded by prophecies given by witches and his wife's insistence to murder Duncan, the king of Scotland.  Macbeth becomes fortunes fool  During Shakespeare’s time, to murder a king was the greatest crime someone could commit. Why?
- 14.  Kings were appointed by God, which meant that rebelling against the king was a rebellion against God.  By murdering Duncan, Macbeth may stand to gain a simple crown, but he loses love, friendship and respect – and perhaps more.
- 16.  a theme is the central topic within a text.  Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject“.  The most common modern understanding of theme is an idea or concept that is central to a story, which can often be summed in a single word.
- 17. Make it a point to be aware of these themes as we read through the play…
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- 20. This also includes ideas surrounding dreams and sleep Notes:
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- 22. Macbeth: • Scottish general and thane of Glamis- and later thane of Cawder • Brave, powerful soldier • Not virtuous • Married to Lady Macbeth • Murders king of Scotland- Duncan • Proves better situated to the battle field than to political intrigue Lady Macbeth: • Macbeths wife • Deeply ambitious, lusts for power and position • Commits suicide • Influence over her husband is primarily sexual The three witches: • Plot mischief against Macbeth • Servants of Hecate • Resemble mythological fates
- 23. Banquo: • Brave, noble general • According to the witches is children are in line to inherit the Scottish throne • Has ambitious thoughts but does not translate them into action • Character stands to rebuke Macbeth • His ghost haunts Macbeth King Duncan: • Good king of Scotland • Murdered by Macbeth for his crown • Model of virtuous, benevolent and farsighted leader • His death- the destruction of an order in Scotland Macduff: • Scottish nobleman • Hostile to Macbeths kingship • Leader of crusade to unseat Macbeth- replace with rightful king, Malcolm • Desires vengeance for his wife and sons murders Malcolm: • Son of Duncan • Becomes serious threat to Macbeth with the help of Macduff
- 24. Hecate: • Goddess of witchcraft • Helps witches work their mischief on Macbeth Fleance: • Banquo’s son • Survives Macbeth’s attempt to murder him • At the end of the play his whereabouts are unknown Lennox and Ross: • Scottish noblemen The murders: • Group of ruffians recruited by Macbeth to murder Banquo, Fleance and Macduff’s wife and children Porter: • Drunken doorman of Macbeth’s castle Lady Macduff: • Macduff’s wife • Her and her home serve as contrast to the hellish world of Iverness Donalbain: • Duncan’s son and Malcolm's younger brother
- 25. Class activity:  In this activity you will be given a photo per table with which you will have to answer the following questions in accordance to what you see: 1. Who are the characters in this picture? 2. What do you think is occurring OR has occurred in this scene? 3. What actions do you think are to follow this scene? 4. What are the relationships like?
Editor's Notes
- #7: Parish records establish that William Shakespeare was baptized on 26 April, 1564. Simply counting backwards the three customary days between birth and baptism in Anglican custom, most reckon that the Bard of Avon was born on 23 April, 1564.The exact date and the precise cause of Shakespeare's death are unknown: one local tradition asserts that the Bard died on 23 April, 1616, of a chill caught after a night of drinking with fellow playwrights Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton. Shakespeare was, in fact, buried three days later, exactly 52 years after his baptism. Shakespeare was born and raised in the picturesque Tudor market town of Stratford-on-Avon, a local government and commercial centre within a larger rural setting, and it is likely that the surrounding woodlands of his boyhood were reflected in the play As You Like It, with its Forest of Arden.
- #8: Between the early 1590s (The Comedy of Errors) and the second decade of the seventeenth century (The Tempest written in 1611), Shakespeare composed the most extraordinary body of works in the history of world drama. His works are often divided into periods, moving roughly from comedies to histories to tragedies and then to his final romances capped by a farewell to the stage in The Tempest.
- #9: The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576. The Burbages originally had a 21-year lease of the site on which The Theatre was built but owned the building outright. However, the landlord, Giles Allen, claimed that the building had become his with the expiry of the lease. On 28 December 1598, while Allen was celebrating Christmas at his country home, carpenter Peter Street, supported by the players and their friends, dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transported it to Street's waterfront warehouse near Bridewell. With the onset of more favourable weather in the following spring, the material was ferried over the Thames to reconstruct it as The Globe on some marshy gardens to the south of Maiden Lane, Southwark.On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry the Eighth. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. It was rebuilt in the following year.Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was pulled down in 1644, or slightly later—the commonly cited document dating the act to 15 April 1644 has been identified as a probable forgery—to make room for tenements.