Analysis Quotes II Symbols Quotes I Shakespeare ’s Life

What is the name of the theater in which most Shakespeare plays were performed? Why was it called this? Why was it shaped like that? Discuss the gender bias and subjugation in theaters of this time. Category 1 – 10 Points

What specifics do we know about Shakespeare’s life? Category 1 – 20 Points

What is the authorship question and why do people believe this? Category 1 – 30 Points

What question do the three sonnet cycles in Shakespeare’s writing raise? Category 1 – 40 Points

Name at least three political events of the Jacobean time period and how we see these anxieties, ongoings, or folkways reflected within the text of Macbeth. Category 1 – 50 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “When you durst do it, then you are a man.” Category 2 – 10 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “I have given suck, and know / How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn / As you have done to this.” Category 2 – 20 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “Out, damned spot; out, I say. / One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t /…Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” Category 2 – 30 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time.” Category 2 – 40 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised, and, I fear, / Thou play'dst most foully / for't” Category 2 – 50 Points

Identify the importance and symbolism in Banquo’s ghost. Category 3 – 10 Points

Identify the importance and symbolism in the Cesarean-section. Category 3 – 20 Points

Identify the importance and symbolism in the rain/thunder. Category 3 – 30 Points

Identify and analyze the symbolic role reversal that occurs within the text. Category 3 – 40 Points

Identify the importance and symbolism in decapitation. Category 3 – 50 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “With the pricking of my thumb / Something wicked this way comes” Category 4 – 10 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “What are you?” “All hail, Macbeth!” Category 4 – 20 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “He’s here in double trust: / First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, / Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, / Who should against his murderer shut the door, /Not bear the knife myself.” Category 4 – 30 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty.” Category 4 – 40 Points

Identify the text, speaker, and briefly analyze: “All my pretty ones? / …”I cannot but remember such things / That were most precious to me.” Category 4 – 50 Points

Discuss the time period’s reviews on regicide and the Divine Right of Kings as evidenced by this play. Category 5 – 10 Points

Who is the most morally at fault within this play? Why? Provide at least four pieces of evidence for your claim. Category 5 – 20 Points

In what way do the witches influence the play, and for what reason? Are these supernatural creatures? Reflections of Macbeth’s psyche? Something else? Category 5 – 30 Points

Discuss Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship. What is Shakespeare saying about gender politics and relationships? Category 5 – 40 Points

In what way do we see Macbeth as a play about anxieties, appropriation, and substitution? How are these themes integral to the play, to the time period, and to humanity/psychology as a whole? Category 5 – 50 Points

Final Jeopardy Topic: Obscure Details You may wager as much as you have.

Which character speaks last in this play?