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Shakespearean Drama Note-taking Guide

Warm Up: “CASTING”______________________________________________________

The CurseRead the entry titled “The Curse of Macbeth” on the website. What is the curse, and how do actors deal with it?

__________________________________________________________________________Read pages 210-214 and take notes on the following (may be simplified and in your own words).

Characteristics of Shakespearean TragedyTragic Hero:

Tragic Flaw:

Can you come up with an example of a tragic hero that you are already familiar with from plays, literature, TV or movies? What is their tragic flaw?

Dramatic Irony:

Soliloquy:

Aside:The Language of Shakespeare

Blank Verse:

Why does Shakespeare sometimes break the iambic pentameter?

Rhetorical devices● Repetition:

○ Your own example:

● Parallelism:○ Your own example:

● Rhetorical Questions:

○ Your own example:

Reading Shakespearean DramaStage directions: Flip ahead through the play to page 218 and find 3 examples of stage directions. Label whether the events occur before or after Macbeth and Banquo arrive:

1. 2. 3.

Elizabethan Words to Know

Draw a cartoon showing at least two people talking while one of them is making an aside (may be stick figures). Include five words from the word bank on page 212.

BackgroundWhat is the setting of the play?Who is Duncan?Who is Macbeth in relation to Duncan?Based on the information on this page and the characters’ descriptions, what do you predict will happen?