MacBeth


The following link provides you with the entire play MacBeth, if you have misplaced your book or otherwise prefer the convenience of reading the play on-line: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html


Study Guide 
The study guide is designed to help you to understand the play.  Complete each section according to the instructions.

PART I         Identify each character describing their role in the play

MacBeth            Lady MacBeth               Banquo                        Duncan                        Donaldbain       Malcolm                         Porter                           Fleance                        Menteith            Siward                            Doctor                          Seyton                                           Caithness           Apparition                     Ross                             Macdonwald
Hecate                MacDuff                        Young Siward

PART II         List (in order as each appears in the play) the important developments as you interpret them, briefly indicating why each is significant in your view.  OR illustrate five events that you feel are the most improtant events in the play.

PART III         Select five quotes from the following link that you feel are the most influential/appealing in the play.  Explain the significance of each quote by justifying your selections.

http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/macbeth/quotesmacbeth.html

PART IV     Locate a twenty line soliloquy/monologue from Macbeth that you will memorize and present to the class.  You will be responsible for expressing why you selected the oration that you chose.  PART III of the study guide may prove beneficial in this section of the study guide as well.  You may not select the witches’ prophesy to Macbeth and Banquo in Act I.

The value of the MacBeth Oration is a performance grade.