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Macbeth Webquest
Directions:
Your goal is to find and collect all the items and information listed here. Any online or print source is valid, as
long as your information is correct.
Part I: MAPPING BRITAIN
1. Mark the following locations on the map of
England:
 London
 The Thames River
 Stratford-upon-Avon
 Cumberland County
2. Mark the following locations on the map of
Scotland:
 Inverness
 Dunsinane
 Birnam
 Scone
 Cawdor
 Hadrian’s Wall
PART II: JUST THE FACTS
Write the correct answer to each question or topic directly on this sheet. Each question is worth 1 point unless
otherwise noted.
3. Date of Shakespeare’s birth: _________________________
4. Date of Shakespeare’s death: ________________________
5. Shakespeare’s birthplace: ___________________________
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6. Name of Shakespeare’s wife: _________________________
7. In his will, Shakespeare bequeathed his “second best ________” to his wife.
8. Occupation of Shakespeare’s father: _______________
9. Date Elizabeth I became Queen of England: _____________
10. Date and title of Shakespeare’s first play: _______________
11. In 1588, Elizabeth I’s outnumbered forces defeated the __________ _________.
12. Date Shakespeare became part owner of the globe: ___________________
13. Year Elizabeth I dies (same year that James I accedes to the throne): ________
14. Name of the mother of James I (James VI of Scotland): _____________
15. James I’s mother was executed by _____________ for the crime of __________.
16. Complete the rhyme:
Remember remember the fifth of ______________,
The ______________ treason and plot.
I know of no __________ why the _____________ treason
Should ever be _______________.
17. On November 5, 1605, ____________ ____________ tried to blow up the Houses of ______________
using ______________.
18. Date of first production of Macbeth: _________________
19. King James I wrote a treatise called Daemonologie, which focused on ______________________.
20. King James also commissioned the __________ _________ Bible.
21. Time of day in which all performances at The Globe took place: ___________
22. Shakespeare used ______________’s Chronicles as a semi-historical source for many of his plays.
PART IV: THE HISTORICAL MACBETH
23. King ___________ __________ is credited with “founding” Scotland by uniting the Pictish and Gaelic
tribes.
24. Gaelic tradition dictated that royal rule passed from father to ________________.
25. In 1040, Macbeth killed King _______________ at the Battle of Elgin.
26. Macbeth ruled for _______________ years and was generally considered a good king.
27. Macbeth was killed in the year __________________ by _________________.