Shakespeare-Speak

Write in modern language what Shakespeare meant when he wrote each phrase.

1. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

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2. “Give me your favor. My dull brain was wroughtWith things forgotten.”

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3. “What man dare, I dare.”

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4. “He knows thy thought. Hear his speech but say thou nought.”

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5. “Why should I play the Roman fool and dieon mine own sword?”

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Macbethby William Shakespeare

Macbeth and the Three Witches

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Shakspeare-Speak Answers: 1. I’ve never seen a day that was so good and bad at the same time. 2. I beg your pardon. I was distracted. 3. I’m as brave as any other man. 4. He can read your thoughts. Listen, but don’t speak. 5. Why should I commit suicide like a solider of ancient Rome? Quiz Answers: 1. Banquo 2. Duncan 3. Macbeth 4. Lady Macbeth 5. Three Witches 6. Malcolm 7. Macduff

QUIZ Draw a line from the characters’ names to their description.

Three Witches

Macduff

Lady Macbeth

Duncan

Macbeth

Malcolm

Banquo

1. A brave, noble general who is murdered by Macbeth, and then haunts him as a ghost.

2. The good King of Scotland, who is murdered by Macbeth.

3. A Scottish general who, after listening to the witches’ prophesies, performs wicked deeds.

4. Macbeth’s wife, a deeply ambitious woman who wants power and position.

5. They plot mischief against Macbeth using spells and prophecies.

6. Son of Duncan. Becomes a serious challenge to Macbeth.

7. Nobleman who desires vengeance for Macbeth’s murder of his wife and son.

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Who Said It?From this list of characters, write who said each quote.

Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo

Witches Malcolm

1. “What’s done cannot be undone.”

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2. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair...fog and filthy air, Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

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3. “If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow, and which will not, speak.”

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4. “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he ow’d, As ‘twere a careless trifle.”

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5. “Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

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6. “Look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under it.”

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7. “Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble!”

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8. “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.”

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9. “I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more, is none.”

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10. “There’s husbandry in heaven;Their candles are all out.”

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11. “Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.”

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12. “It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood.”

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13. “Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,Thou lily-liver’d boy.”

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14. “Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

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The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth

Johann Heinrich Füssli

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Answers: 1. Lady Macbeth 2. Witches 3. Banquo 4. Malcolm 5. Macbeth 6. Lady Macbeth 7. Witches 8. Lady Macbeth 9. Macbeth 10. Banquo 11. Macbeth 12. Macbeth 13. Macbeth 14. Lady Macbeth