Commentarying...which isn't a word!

MACBETH

Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
Enter a Servant
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?

Task

Consider the above passage from 'Macbeth'.

Locate the piece in your copy of the text (Act V Scene III)

Write a few paragraphs making comment on it.

You should include reference to...

It's context within the whole play...contextualise the piece.

Iambic Pentameter

• Does it follow the iambic pentameter pattern?
• Where?
• Why?
• Which words or syllables are highlighted by the verse form?

Dramatic Irony

The Divine Right of Kings

The use of rhetoric (his quotation from the witches is a form of rhetoric.)

Where this extract fits into the model of the tragic hero


Everyone must do this...you have a week.

Anyone who cannot post here must submit a typed copy.

G'luck

When the feeling's gone and you can't go on it's a...

...Tragedy!

It would be nice if you understood how Macbeth sits alongside other Shakespearean tragedies.  It would be excellent if we could develop some basic knowledge and comparative skills between the texts and it would be acecool if we could apply and test the criteria for tragedy to/with these other plays.

Pick a play and post a short summary of events in the play, a few notes on the protagonist and other main characters and a brief comment on the extent to which it is a tragedy.

Hamlet

Othello

King Lear

Macbeth

Anthony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

The Tempest

Adjectives and Vocabulary

Adjectives and Vocabulary

The range of vocablary you can and do use will be a deciding factor in your grade.

For each of the following characters list 10 good quality adjectives that could be used to describe them.

Don't worry if you find that different adjectives contradict each other because they refer to different parts of the play.

use http://www.thesaurus.com/.  Viit this site. Get to know it.  Bookmark it. It is your friend.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo

Artistic License

Artistic license is a phrase that refers to the level to which a creative person or team develop (or at times devalue) an existing piece of work when they interpret it.


Artistic license often comes into question when an existing text is translated into another medium; it can equally be relevant when a piece is reproduced in its original medium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9G_CZVAL8

Watch the animated version of Macbeth at the link above.

Make a comment as to the extent to which the creative team have used artistic license in their interpretation.

Comments on the design of the characters; what they have chosen to highlight in the characterisation; the design of the locations; the potential use of pathetic fallacy; the level to which the theme of the supernatural is developed or the scenes and lines that have been omitted would be suitable.

Iambic Pentameter

Each of you has six days to post a piece of verse on this blog that is written in iambic pentameter.

I will never ask you to do something I would not do myself so there should be 11 posts here by next week.

Please feel free to comment on each other's work.