2. Who is William Shakespeare?
-Lived from
-Wrote 40 plays
 comedies
 tragedies
 histories
-Married to Anne Hathaway
-Writer, actor, owned his own theatre

3. Language

4. #1 is Old English or Anglo-Saxon (circa 450-1066 CE).
#2 is Middle English (circa AD).
#3 is Modern English from about the time of Shakespeare.
#4 is another sample of Modern English, but it is more recent than #3.

5. Is this how everyone spoke during this time?
No.

6. Shakespeare gave us...
accused addiction advertising alligator amazement Arouse assassination backing bandit bedroom Beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained Barefaced blushing bet bump buzzer Caked cater champion circumstantial cold-blooded Compromise courtship countless critic dauntless Dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged Dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitement Exposure eyeball fashionable fixture flawed Frugal generous gloomy gossip green-eyed Gust hint hob-knob hot-blooded hurried impede impartial invulnerable jaded label lacklustre laughable lonely lower luggage lustrous madcap majestic marketable metamorphize mimic monumental moonbeam mountaineer negotiate noiseless obscene obsequiously ode Olympian outbreak panders pedant premeditated puking radiance rant remorseless savagery scuffle secure skim milk submerge summit swagger torture tranquil undress unreal varied vaulting wormhole worthless zany

7. Why learn Shakespeare? Pop culture
Increase critical thinking of language
Understand where many words came from
Basis of many contemporary stories
Many phrases we use
“All that glitters is not gold”
“Break the ice”
“Dog will have his day”
“The game is afoot”
“Greek to me”
“Wear my heart upon my sleeve”

8. Macbeth Summary

9. Why Macbeth? Macbeth was a real person
Banquo (friend of Macbeth) was said to be ancestor of King James
King James interested in the supernatural
Witches were popular
Between 1560 – 1603 hundreds were convicted of witchcraft
Eleventh-Century Scotland was a violent and troubled country.
Feuding families and clans fought to control trade and territory.
The castle was the power base of each rival war-lord (thane).
Political murder and revenge killings were commonplace.

10. Who was Macbeth? king of Scotland (1040–57).
In 1040, Macbeth killed Duncan in battle and seized the throne.
Macbeth was defeated in 1054 by Siward, earl of Northumbria, who regained the southern part of Scotland on behalf of Malcolm Canmore, Duncan's son.
Malcolm himself regained the rest of the kingdom after defeating and killing Macbeth in the battle of Lumphanan. He then succeeded to the throne as Malcolm III.