Oliver+Macbeth


 * __Brainpop Exercise__**

1. **False** - Shakespeare was born in **England** 1564 2. **False** - Sonnets are poems that contain �214 215� lines. 3. **True** - Shakespeare married at the age of 18 and moved to **London** in about 1592. 4. **True** - In 1594 he began performing his plays with Lord Baltimore's Men. 5. **False** - His **comedies** often deal with social life and human flaws and contain slapstick humour and puns. 6. **True** - Shakespeare wrote **history** plays, which chronicle the lives of British kings, but they were not always historically accurate. 7. **False** - //Macbeth// and //Romeo and Juliet// are **tragedies**. 8. **True** - Shakespeare's plays contain truths of human nature that are still **relevant** today.

Not much is known about Shakespeare's life, especially his childhood. His father was a glove maker. Shakespeare never went to school, which makes historians start asking questions such as, 'Did Shakespeare write his own plays?'. There aren't many sources that prove nor disprove these theories but Shakespeare's plays and sonnets have over 29 000 unique words. His works do show that Shakespeare had good knowledge on politics, law and foreign languages. His plays were known for their in-depth characters, not necessarily the plots as they show up throughout history as rumors or truth. After Shakespeare's death, his will didn't state anything about his books or plays. Shakespeare was around during most of Elizabeth I reign. He married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway. As Shakespeare's plays became extremely popular, the Globe Theatre was built just for them. At the age of 59 years, Shakespeare passed away.
 * __Shakespeare__**

Queen Elizabeth ruled for most of the 16th century. She was born on 7th September 1533 and died 24th March 1603.
 * __Queen Elizabeth I__**

Her rival to the throne was the Scottish Queen, Mary. They were relatives and were both Queens. Some of the English people believed that Queen Mary should become the Queen of England after the death of her husband in France. Queen Mary wanted to see and talk to Queen Elizabeth as she wasn't liked by the Scottish, she was hoping Queen Elizabeth would help her out. Queen Elizabeth was clever though. She knew that the Catholics would want Mary to be Queen. Because of this, Queen Elizabeth 'imprisoned' Mary in different castle, swapping every now and again. Queen Elizabeth had more power than Mary. It was like Queen Elizabeth was an older sibling with a long lost sibling who had done wrong. The right thing would be to get rid of her, but she didn't want to kill a fellow Queen, a family member. In the end Elizabeth had to sign a warrant for Mary's death as she had been caught plotting. This was said to be her hardest decision. Elizabeth felt extremely bad after the death of Mary.

Shakespeare's Macbeth follows the story of a Mormaer. Macbeth basically killed all his competition to gain access to the throne of Scotland. He killed King Duncan I.
 * __Who was Macbeth?__**

Malcolm was the oldest son of King Duncan. He escaped Macbeth by running south and took refuge at the court of English King Hardicanute. He did this as he knew that Macbeth would be after him. In the end, he killed Macbeth in the end.
 * __Who was Malcolm?__**

King Duncan was a king of Scotland in 1038. He was killed in battle by Macbeth.
 * __Who was Duncan?__**

__**Who was James VI of Scotland and what was his relationship to James I of England?**__ James was the only child of Queen Mary. He became King of Scotland pretty quickly after his mother was forced to leave the throne. When Queen Elizabeth left the throne, King James tried everything in his power to become King of England. He succeeded and that is why he is known as James the VI of Scotland and James I of England.

The Divine Rights of Kings refers to the King or Queen as to having no earthly authority and that they do the direct will of God. They can never be wrong with any of their decision.
 * __The Divine Right of Kings__**



The Elizabethan Society was very sex based. The males had the power in the average family and the women were just there to create and look after a family. However, during this time the higher classed women got the privileges of being allowed to be educated. Other skills such as dancing were also expected to be known by these women. During this era, a new way of thinking was introduced in the form of the Renaissance. Discoveries such as Francis Drake managed to circumnavigate the earth. Queen Elizabeth I was very intelligent and didn’t manage as she wanted to keep the power of the throne just to herself. Because of this all, she was able to shape England to how she wanted it. As new discoveries were being made about astrology, science and advances such as printing created another value that focussed on the supernatural. This included witches/witchcraft, ghosts and many more. The monarch of England was also religious based, giving churches power. Protestant was the dominant religion during the Elizabethan era but Catholics were accepted as well. An Act was passed before Elizabeth gained power that meant that England didn’t have to respond to the Pope in Rome. Theatre was a major factor during this era as Shakespeare shone at this time as well. As education was becoming a more important skill that people needed more colleges and school were built and many of them still stand today. As printing was introduced at this time as well, books were being published for them at cheaper prices too making education that bit cheaper so the middle class citizens could go to school. The Elizabethan era was full of great discoveries, more independence and a slow change that started giving more people more power over their lives.
 * __Elizabethan Society__**

__**Soliloquy Act 2 Scene 1**__ Is this a fish which I see before me,

The tail toward my hand? Come, let me pet thee:

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feelings as to sight? Or art thou but

A fish of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I see thee yet, in form as believable

As this fish which now I draw.

Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,

And such an animal I was to pet.

Mine eyes are made the fools of the other senses,

Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still

And on thy fin and fury gouts of scales,

Which was not so before. There's no such thing:

It is the scaly business which informs

Thus to mine eyes.