Name of

Play
Date
Written
Date
Published
Main
Characters
Themes Setting Plot Summary Genres Reflections/Critique
Macbeth 1606 1623
Duncan
King of
Scotland.
Malcolm and
Donalbain -
Duncans
sons.
Macbeth a
general in
the Kings
army.
Lady
Macbeth
Macbeths
wife.
Banquo a
fellow
general
1. Blood
blood is
everywhere
in the plot
because of
the many
assassination
s by
Macbeth,
Lady
Macbeth and
the hired
soldiers.

Scotland
after war
Macbeth and Banquo
return from war with their
blood-covered horses.
They meet three witches,
who predict Banquo wont
be king but his
descendants will. King
Duncan grants Macbeth
the title of Thane of
Cawdor and asks to stay at
his castle for the night.
Lady Macbeth bullies
Macbeth into murdering
King Duncan. Lady
Macbeth tries to
incriminate Princes
Malcolm and Donalbain for
the murder. Macduff
suspects that Macbeth has
committed the murder.
Then Malcolm and
Donalbain flee to England.
Macbeth is crowned King.
Macbeth hires assassins to
murder Banquo and his son
Fleance. Macbeth sees the
ghost of Banquo at the
coronation banquet and
shows signs of madness.
Macbeth visits the Witches
to get their predictions for
Tragedy Macbeth is probably
one of the most
violent plays
Shakespeare ever
wrote. Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth are
both very mad. All
the others are
innocent.

Three
Witches
tells
prophesies
Macduff
out for
revenge
Fleance son
of Banquo

the future. The Three
Witches convince Macbeth
that he is invincible, with
the exceptions that woods
dont walk and what man
was not born by a
woman. Macbeth demands
the truth and the Witches
conjure up apparitions of
Banquos descendants
ruling Scotland. Macduff
joins forces with Banquo.
Macbeth gets even madder
and sends murderers to kill
Macduffs wife and
children. Lady Macbeth
commits suicide. Macduff
faces Macbeth and kills
him. Malcolm claims the
throne. After Malcolm, as
the Witches predicted,
Banquos descendants
become King.