INTRO TO MACBETH WEBQUEST
Complete the following activities and questions as you are directed through the webquest. Record all of your responses
and notes on a piece of paper to be turned in with your homework packet. Good Luck!
Royal Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare’s London
http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/shakespeare/london.aspx
1. Which social classes went to the theatre in London?
2. When did Shakespeare begin working in London?
3. Who worked in the theatre companies?
4. Which companies earned the most money?
5. Shakespeare was in The Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later called The King’s Men). How many people could they perform
to?
6. How many times would a single play be performed?
William Shakespeare in London
http://www.literarygenius.info/william-shakespeare-london.htm
Shakespeare grew up in Stratford upon Avon, but he wrote Macbeth when he was living in London. Read about what life
was like in Shakespeare’s London.
7. Who was Richard Field?
8. Why do we think Shakespeare lived in Bishopsgate?
9. How much money did Shakespeare pay to buy his house in 1613?
10. Who wrote the pamphlet “The Seven Deadly Sins of London”?
11. What did the author think of London?
William Shakespeare the Playwright
Let’s find out a bit more about Shakespeare the playwright. Use the website below to answer the questions.
http://www.literarygenius.info/william-shakespeare-playwright.htm
12. Was the profession of playwright a good career in Shakespeare’s time?
13. Did Shakespeare think his plays had great literary merit?
14. What is a patron?
15. What was the name of Shakespeare’s patron?
16. Why was being a playwright dangerous?
17. How many plays did Shakespeare publish in his lifetime?
Publishing and Advertising the Plays
http://www.literarygenius.info/publication-william-shakespeare-plays.htm
Many plays were performed every week in Shakespeare’s time. Nowadays there are hundreds of plays in theatres every
night. Let’s find out how the theatres advertise their plays and get people in to watch them. Follow the website link
above and then answer the questions below.
18. How many people could read in Shakespeare’s time?
19. How did theatres advertise their plays?
INTRO TO MACBETH WEBQUEST
Complete the following activities and questions as you are directed through the webquest. Record all of your responses
and notes into this document. Good Luck!
Royal Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare’s London
http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/shakespeare/london.aspx
20. Which social classes went to the theatre in London?
21. When did Shakespeare begin working in London?
22. Who worked in the theatre companies?
23. Which companies earned the most money?
24. Shakespeare was in The Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later called The King’s Men). How many people could they perform
to?
25. How many times would a single play be performed?
William Shakespeare in London
http://www.literarygenius.info/william-shakespeare-london.htm
Shakespeare grew up in Stratford upon Avon, but he wrote Macbeth when he was living in London. Read about what life
was like in Shakespeare’s London.
26. Who was Richard Field?
27. Why do we think Shakespeare lived in Bishopsgate?
28. How much money did Shakespeare pay to buy his house in 1613?
29. Who wrote the pamphlet “The Seven Deadly Sins of London”?
30. What did the author think of London?
William Shakespeare the Playwright
Let’s find out a bit more about Shakespeare the playwright. Use the website below to answer the questions.
http://www.literarygenius.info/william-shakespeare-playwright.htm
31. Was the profession of playwright a good career in Shakespeare’s time?
32. Did Shakespeare think his plays had great literary merit?
33. What is a patron?
34. What was the name of Shakespeare’s patron?
35. Why was being a playwright dangerous?
36. How many plays did Shakespeare publish in his lifetime?
Publishing and Advertising the Plays
http://www.literarygenius.info/publication-william-shakespeare-plays.htm
Many plays were performed every week in Shakespeare’s time. Nowadays there are hundreds of plays in theatres every
night. Let’s find out how the theatres advertise their plays and get people in to watch them. Follow the website link
above and then answer the questions below.
37. How many people could read in Shakespeare’s time?
38. How did theatres advertise their plays?
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The Globe Theatre
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/macbeth/shakesengland/globe.html
Elizabethan World Order
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/macbeth/historical/elizaborder.html
The Witches
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/macbeth/historical/witchcraft.html
Gunpowder Plot
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/macbeth/historical/gunplot.html
Background to Macbeth
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/macbeth/historical/backmac.html
History of Duncan, Macbeth, King James I
Read the information in the links below and make some general notes on the information.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/DuncanMacBeth/
The Real Macbeth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml
Questions:
39. Summarize what you have learned about the real Macbeth.
40. Why did Shakespeare choose to make Macbeth into a villain when history tells us that he was not?
41. Which political figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries do you know of (or have heard about) who
have been assassinated? Find out the possible reasons for their assassination.