1. November 6, 2013
November 7 on Book
Projects
Tomorrow: work on Book Project, Book Pledge
Materials for “Macbeth”
Homework and Classwork:
In-class read play
Homework: Learn vocabulary, the story and the characters.
Know the terminology including facts of Shakespere’s life and
his plays

2. Goals to Exams
• Read “Macbeth” and see film
• Apply and Understand Literary Terms
• Understand the Life of Shakespeare
• Understand The Public Theatre
• Understand the English Renaissance
• Five paragraph essay on “Macbeth as Tragic hero:
the love of power”

3. Materials for Unit
• Paper: The Play, The worksheets
• The Moodle:
• Background materials for literary terms, parts of
theatre, Shakespeare’s Life
• Story of “Macbeth”
• Extra worksheets, if lost
• On line copy of play

4. Web Quest:
• Life of Shakespeare
• Life in Elizabethan England
• The Public Theatre
• “Macbeth” a tragedy

5. William Shakespeare
• Why is Shakespeare considered (by many) to be
the world’s best writer?
• How did the Public Theatre shape our
professional theatre today?
• Why are is plays interpreted and presented on
stage, on the screen, in the street and more
today?
• Why are their hundreds of library books about this
man and his work?

6. Thursday, November 7
• Book Pledge on Moodle
• Meet in groups and plan project
• Complete project outline in groups

7. Monday, November 11, 2013
• Planning Outline for Book Project Due Today
• Shakespeare Web Quest
• Review and show on Screen
• Shakespeare Facts to Know
• HW: Quiz on Facts on Thursday. Upload finished
web quest with new notes a second time.
Download power point from class. Week #13

11. And more to consider…
• How does the structure of Shakespearean tragedy
affect our entertainment today?
• What magic still exists in his language for us
today?
• Why do his tragic heroes live beyond the pages
and speak to us now?

12. You need to know the
following:
• Background of the Renaissance in England
• Shakespeare’s Life and Times
• The Public and Private theatres in Renaissance
England
• The structure of tragedy
• The definition of a tragic hero

13. Sources:
• Textbook – pp. 290-299
• Web sites and materials on Moodle
• The Globe Theatre
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/virtual-tour
• The PBS Macbeth movie
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/macbeth/watch-the-
full-program/1030/
• The Story of the play
• ASSIGNMENTS ON MOODLE

17. Tuesday, November 12, 2013
• Text book needed today in class
• Facts of Shakespeare’s life and times – notes on
worksheet. QUIZ ON THURSDAY!
• Characters in “Macbeth”
• Act 1.1 read: setting
• HW: Complete a quizlet or a power point for 1.1
vocabulary words on the Moodle.

18. 1533-1603 Elizabeth I

19. Elizabethan Era – Renaissance in England
pp.222-231 text
• Order of the universe: God, king, duke….
• Spanish Armada 1588
• Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth I
• James II
• First Folio 1623
• The First Folio
• 1607 Jamestown, VA

20. Shakespeare’s Language
• 1,700 new words
• Phrases and maxims spoken today
• “To be or not to be…” (Hamlet)
• Phrase box on p 232
• Genre: tragedy, comedy, history

21. William Shakespeare
1564-1616
• Early Life in Stratford-Upon-Avon
• 1564-1616, April 23
• playwright, actor, director, producer, land owner
• Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-Upon-Avon
• John Shakespeare (father): glover and bailiff
• Stratford Grammar School:
• Latin, Greek, mythology, Holinshed’s Chronicles,
Plautus and Terence, Seneca, theatre, Virgil, Ovid
• Married Anne Hathaway: three children (1582)
• Hamnet, Judith and Susanna

22. Professional Life
• London theatrical world – early 1590’s
1592 “Venus and Adonis” and 1593 “The Rape of
Lucrece” – published poems
• The Plague drove companies out of London
• Lord Chamberlain’s Men 1594
• Actor (Romeo and Juliet)
• 1598 Palladis Tamia (works credited to Shakespeare)
• Three Genre(s): History, Comedy and Tragedy
• 1599: The Globe -
• South Bank of the Thames River
• Performed in court for Elizabeth I
• 1603 – The King’s Men under James I

24. End of Life
• Wrote little after 1612 - King Henry VIII (a play)
• 1613 Globe burned to the ground
• Returned to Stratford – New Place
• 39 plays (may be more)
• Comedies: Measure for Measure, The Tempest,
All’s Well that Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
• Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Lear,
Othello, Macbeth
• Histories: Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII

25. Web Quest
• Tour of the Globe
• Shakespeare’s life and times
• Scotland

26. Wednesday, November
13
• The Parts of the Public Theatre: use diagrams and
virtual tour
• Read Act 1.1
• Characters
• Setting
• Literary Devices
• HW: Review for quiz tomorrow. Shakespeare’s life
and times, parts of the public theatre.

27. Act 1. Scene 1 – “Macbeth”
• The witch’s Prophesy Thane
• Play’s opening sets a tone of mystery, evil and
foreboding
• Three witches (fates, Greek mythology reference or
allusion)
• Iambic Pentameter
• Scansion
• Rhyming couplet
• Paradox

28. Act 1. Scene 2
• The Scots battle the Norwegians (Vikings)
• A wounded captain reports to King Duncan and
Thanes
• Macbeth’s abilities as a leader
• Banquo’s abilities

29. The Public Theatre
• Stage business
• Sides
• Scripts
• Parts of Public Theatre: stage, trap door, the
Heavens, boxes, the pit, inner below, inner
above, musicians, business offices, signal flags
and banners (audiences of 2-3,000)
• Public versus Private
• First Professional actors
• Inns of Court, Castles, wagons on the road

31. Parts of the Public
Theatre:
• stage, trap door,
• the Heavens, boxes,
• the pit, inner below, inner above,
• musicians, business offices,
• signal flags and banners (audiences of 2-3,000

33. The Globe
• 1576 The Theatre James Burbage
• Bear-Baiting, cock fighting, and more
• Pilgrims and The Plague
• Companies of male actors, young boys played girl’s parts
• Women appeared onstage 1660 Charles II (returned from
France)
• 1639 Cromwell (pilgrims)
• Limited scenery, actor costumes/props
• Names of public theatres: The Hope, The Swan, The
Curtain, The Fortune, The Globe
• Private Theatres: Blackfriars, castles in and outside of
London

34. Professional Acting
• The company – all men 14-60
• Ensemble effort
• Costumes, props and scenery
• The business of theatre – shareholders
• Heminges and Condell – The First Folio 1623
• 37 plays, 157 sonnets, 3 longer poems
• http://www.bardweb.net/globe.htm

35. Macbeth
• Holinshed’s CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND
• Charles and Elia Lamb’s TALES OF
SHAKESPEARE
• Read story of play

36. Thursday, November 14,
2013
• Shakespeare Quiz
• Finish Act 1, scene 2
• See Movie at beginning –
• Movie differences from play
• HW: Project work. Work in groups tomorrow.
November 22 – Book Projects – One week!

37. Friday, November 15,
2013
• Update Book Pledge for credit
• Project Work on Teams
• Finish scenario
• Practice presentation
• HW: Upload final outline and power point
needed for presentation.