Materiali teatro in lingua inglese

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Page P1 Macbethteachers material www.theplaygroup.eu


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PICTURE STORY - PHRASES FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

1. Macbeth and Banquo are riding home on horseback in a thunderstorm after ghting courageous-ly against Norway. Suddenly from out of the darkness the men see three witches. The witches greetMacbeth as Thane (Lord) of Cawdor and King. They also tell Banquo that one day his sons will bekings.

2. A messenger from the king arrives and informs Macbeth that the King has made him Thane ofCawdor. Macbeth goes to the Kings palace. The King welcomes him and tells him he wants to visitMacbeths castle in Inverness. Macbeth writes a letter to his wife, Lady Macbeth telling her aboutthe three witches and the Kings wish to visit their castle in Inverness. Lady Macbeth reads the let-ter and has an evil idea to kill Duncan while he is a guest at her house.

3. When Macdu escapes to England Macbeth decides to kill every member of Macdus family. Inthe King of Englands palace Macdu describes the horrors of Macbeths reign. Ross arrives withnews of the massacre of the Macdu family. After Macdu has expressed his grief it is agreed thatthe time has arrived for the attack on Macbeth.

4. Lady Macbeth and her husband organise a feast in their castle. As they welcome the guests one ofthe murderers arrives and tells Macbeth of the death of Banquo and the escape of Flance. Macbethturns back to the table and comments on Banquos absence. Banquos ghost enters and occupiesMacbeths place; he is visible only to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth tries to calm her husband and keepcontrol of the situation but after the ghost has disappeared and Macbeth seems once more calm,suddenly, again on Macbeths mentioning his name, Banquos ghost reappears and Macbeth is againhelpless.

5. Later that night Lady Macbeth and Macbeth wait until all the guests go to bed. Macbeth is wait-ing for a signal from his wife when he sees a dagger. He tries to take it in his hand but cannot. He

tries to concentrate on the murder and hears the signal from Lady Macbeth who has drugged Dun-cans servants and is waiting for her husband to return from murdering Duncan.. Macbeth enters indeep shock by what he has done.

6. The army organised against Macbeth is ordered by Malcolm to cut branches from Birnam Woodto disguise the number of soldiers. They march towards Dunsinane Castle. A messenger arriveswith the news that Birnam Wood is approaching Dunsinane. Outside the castle the battle commenc-es. Macbeth is surrounded but decides to die ghting. Macdu confronts Macbeth. As they prepareto ght Macbeth claims that he is invincible but Macdu informs him that he was not born tohis mother in the usual way and in the ghting Macdu kills Macbeth. When Macdu brings Mac-beths head in front of the army Malcolm is made the new king and promises to bring peace andorder back to Scotland.

7. In Dunsinane castle a doctor and Lady Macbeths personal assistant are watching to see if LadyMacbeth walks in her sleep as her servant has reported to the doctor. She enters and begins to rubher hands as if struggling to clean them and before she departs she refers to the deaths of Duncan,Macdus wife and Banquo. The doctor confesses that he cannot help in such cases.

8. Macbeth makes arrangements to have Banquo and his son killed. Banquo is suspicious about howthe witches prophecies for Macbeth have come true. Macbeth remembers the witches predictions

for Banquos sons. When Banquo leaves the castle Macbeth organises his murder and the murder ofFlance by two villains. However the plan is only half successful as Flance escapes.



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Activity 11 Witches drama activity

PART 01

Group A:I come, Graymalkin!

When shall we three meet again?Where the place?Fair is foullthy airIn thunder

Group B :When the hurlyburlys done

There to meet with MacbethHover through the foglightningPaddock callsAnon.

Group C:In rainWhen the battles lost and wonGraymalkinUpon the heath

foul is fairlthy air

Group D:set of sunmeet with Macbethlost and wonhover through the foghurlyburlymeet with Macbeth

Group E:GraymalkinPaddockfoullost

doneMacbeth

PART 02

1 When shall we three meet again ?2 When the hurlyburlys done3 When the battles lost and won,4 That will be ere set of sun

5 Where the place?



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Activity 12 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth - a split dialogue

LADY MACBETH MACBETH

This is a sorry sight A foolish thought to say a sorry sight

One cried God bless us! Consider it not so deeply

I could not say Amen. Amen stuck in mythroat.

These deeds must not be thought. After theseways:

Macbeth does murder sleep What do you mean?

Macbeth shall sleep no more! You do unbend your noble strength, to think so brainsickly

I am afraid to think what I have done; wash this lthy witness from your hand.

Ill go no more; Inrm of purpose!

I dare not. Give me the daggers.

every noise appals me I shame to wear a heart so white

wash this blood Clean from my hand A little water clears us of this deed



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Activity 14 Macbeths Final Speech

The extract below is taken from Act V, Scene 5 when Macbeth is alone. Macdu and Malcolm are leadingan army towards Macbeths castle, Macbeths Lords have deserted him to support Malcolm and LadyMacbeth has killed herself. In the nal battle, when Macbeth is killed by Macdu, Malcolm is crownedKing of Scotland and law and order is re-established.

Macbeth, after hearing of Lady Macbeths suicide, speaks his last great speech before the nal battle.

She should have died hereafter:There would have been a time for such a word.To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time; 5And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Lifes but a walking shadow; a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more: it is a tale 10Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

1. After the death of his wife, Macbeth expresses all his weariness. Which words show the inevitability ofdeath?

2. Three metaphors have been used to describe life. What are they?

a)b)c).

3. Which word (s) express (es) what these images have in common?

alsity futilitynothingness purityight ugliness

4. In this passage Macbeth seems to be indierent to his wifes death. He seems to search for a signi-cance of life but he only evokes a world of meaningless repetition. Time has no sense because he rejectedhose values that make the meaning of life: love, friendship, service. His will has chosen evil and the

consequence is chaos and abnegation of meaning. This evil choice can only lead to nothingness.

5. Do you think that this view of life can apply to our time?

6. Think of any examples that can conrm or contradict Macbeths words and discuss with the class.



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Activity 16 Shakespeares lie - gapfll.

Place the following words in the gaps provided:rival, Renaissance, died, act, documents, summarised, private, plays, mentioned, play-wright, dramatists, house, married, learned, Latin, eighteen, twins, mystery, popular,years, John, central

There are no personal records of Shakespeares life. Ocial 1)______________and occasional refer-ences to him by contemporary 2) ______________enable us to draw the main outline of his publiclife, but his 3)______________life remains hidden. Although not at all unusual for a writer of histime, this lack of rst-hand evidence has tempted many to read his 4)______________as personalrecords and to look in them for clues to his character and convictions. The results are unconvincing,partly because 5)______________art was not subjective or designed primarily to express its cre-ators personality, and partly because the drama of any period is very dicult to read biographical-ly.What we do know can be 6)______________very quickly. Shakespeare was born into a well-to-dofamily in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, 7)______________England,

where he was baptised, in Holy Trinity Church, on 26 April 1564. His father, 8)______________Shakespeare, was a prosperous glover and leather merchant who became a person of some impor-tance in the town: in 1565 he was elected an alderman (councillor), and in 1568 he became high

baili (or mayor) of Stratford. In 1557 he had 9)______________Mary Arden. Their third child (ofeight) and eldest son, William, 10)______________to read and write at the primary (or petty)school in Stratford and then, it seems probable, attended the local grammar school, where hewould have studied 11)______________, history, logic and rhetoric. In November 1582 William,then aged 12)______________, married Anne Hathaway, who was twenty-six years old. They had adaughter, Susanna, in May 1583, and 13)______________, Hamnet and Judith, in 1585.Shakespeare next appears in the historical record in 1592 when he was 14)______________ as a

London actor and playwright in a pamphlet by the dramatist Robert Greene. These lost years1585-92 have been the subject of much speculation, but how they were occupied remains as much a15)______________ as when Shakespeare left Stratford, and why. In his pamphlet, Greene express-es to his fellow dramatists his outrage that the upstart crow Shakespeare has the impudence to

believe he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you. To have aroused thishostility from a 16)______________, Shakespeare must, by 1592, have been long enough in Londonto have made a name for himself as a 17)______________ We may suppose that he had left Stratfordin 1586 or 1587.During the next 20 18)______________, Shakespeare continued to live in London, regularly visitinghis wife and family in Stratford. He continued to 19)______________, but his chief fame was as adramatist. From 1594 he wrote exclusively for the Lord Chamberlains Men, which rapidly becamethe leading dramatic company and from 1603 enjoyed the patronage of James I as the Kings Men.His plays were extremely 20)______________ and he became a shareholder in his theatre company.He was able to buy lands around Stratford and a large 21)______________in the town, to which heretired about 1611. He 22)______________on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Churchon 25 April.



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Activity 17 The Globe Theatre - gapfll exercise

Using these words, ll in the gaps in the text

Thames / scenery / 1599 / sunlight / see / gods / freely / gentlemen / actresses / buildings /roof / broken / spark / excavation / Puritans / entered / stadium / exited / imaginations

Todays theatres are comfortable 1)______________ with seats for all the audience, and pow-erful electric lighting to illuminate the actors performing on stage. Often there is complicated2)______________ made of wood or cloth, representing walls, trees and so on, to give the im-pression of indoor or outdoor scenes.In Shakespeares day, theatres were very dierent. The central part had no 3) ______________ .As there was no electricity to light the theatres they had to depend on 4)______________ Thecentral, open-air part contained the stage and a yard. Many of the audience stood in the yardin front of the stage. The stage was raised so that everyone could 5)______________ Those whocould pay higher prices sat on seats arranged in two or three storeys in a rough circle around

the yard, rather as in a very small British football 6)______________ The top storey of seats hada roof; and there was also an extra storey, the heavens, above the back of the stage, which con -tained machinery (for example, for lowering and lifting actors playing 7)______________At the back of the stage were large double doors or curtains leading to a dressing room for theactors. The space behind was also used for some indoor scenes, for example, Juliets tomb in Ro-meo and Juliet. Actors also went in and out (8)______________ and 9______________ ) throughthese doors. There were trapdoors going down through the stage, for use as tombs, prisons oreven hell.Unlike todays theatres, there was no scenery, so actors in Shakespeares time could move very10)______________ Costumes were often rich and impressive, but not historically correct. For

example, the Romans in Julius Caesar would have been dressed more or less as Elizabethan11)______________ Without costumes or scenery, plays had to rely on words to show the audi-ence where and when the story was taking place.The audience had to use their 12)______________ far more than we do in the cinema or theatre

today, and especially since: there were no 13)______________ ! (Just like the Play Group!). Thetheatre was not considered a respectable place for women to work, so all female parts were tak-en by young boys whose voices had not yet 14)______________The rst building specially designed as a theatre was opened in London in 1576. The Globetheatre was opened in 15)______________ and saw the performance Shakespeares greatestplays, including Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello. It was located on Bankside, on thesouth bank of the river 16)______________ Activities in this area of London took place outsidethe jurisdiction of the City authorities, and the theatres had brothels and bear-baiting rings forcompany - and competition. In 1613 the rst Globe was burned down by a 17)______________from a prop canon, which ignited the thatched roof during a performance of Henry VIII . It wasrebuilt with a tiled roof and ourished until the 18)______________ closed all theatres in Lon-don. It was demolished in 1644.In Henry V, Shakespeare described the theatre as This wooden O, but the Globe was in fact,like its neighbours The Rose and The Swan, polygonal: an archaeological 19)______________ ofthe site of the old theatre determined that it had twenty sides.


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