Fri, Oct 22, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• EssVoc: ballad
• Read Edward, Edward p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Read Edward, Edward, p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.
AP Literature
• Show me 600 words
• MB outline posted below to help in finding quotations and evidence
• Go over how to quote and document Shakespeare and poetry. See below for information.
• Check MC prose2 and poetry 2
• HW: Write final draft, due Tues. Peer editing Mon.
Drama
• SSRFF
• Monologues
OUTLINE of Macbeth
ACT I
Scene 1, p255 Witches talking, “Fair is foul.”
Scene 2, p256 Macbeth’s bravery, Cawdor’s treason
Scene 3, p257 Macbeth meets witches, who prophesy for him and Banquo.
Scene 4, p263 King Duncan congratulates Macbeth on his bravery and new title.
Scene 5, p265 Lady Macbeth gets letter, plans to murder King Duncan.
Scene 6, p267 King arrives at Macbeth’s castle.
Scene 7, p268 Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill, against his objections.
ACT II
Scene 1, p272 Macbeth sees dagger appear in the air and goes to kill the king.
Scene 2, p274 Macbeth hears voices saying Macbeth has murdered sleep.
Scene 3, p277 Ross and Macduff come to wake Duncan, find him dead, call to everyone.
Scene 4, p282 Ross and Macduff discuss the strange situation with an old man.
ACT III
Scene 1, p285 Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo.
Scene 2, p289 Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth about more killing to come.
Scene 3, p291 Banquo is murdered, but Fleance escapes.
Scene 4, p293 The murderers report; Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost at the supper feast.
Scene 5, p298 Hecate plans a meeting with the witches to give Macbeth his destiny.
Scene 6, p299 Lennox and another lord discuss Macduff raising an army against Macbeth.
ACT IV
Scene 1, p301 Macbeth visits the witches and sees the apparitions
Scene 2, p306 Macbeth’s murderers slaughter Macduff’s wife and child
Scene 3, p309 Malcolm tests Macduff’s honor by appearing to have many vices
ACT V
Scene 1, p317 Lady Macbeth sleepwalks while a doctor and a gentlewoman look on.
Scene 2, p319 Scottish lords discuss Malcolm and Macduff’s plan and Macbeth’s state.
Scene 3, p320 The doctor reports Lady Macbeth's condition to Macbeth, who calls for armor
Scene 4, p322 Near Birnam, Malcolm and Macduff’s soldiers march
Scene 5, p323 Lady Macbeth dies, Birnam Wood approaches Dunsinane
Scene 6, p324 Malcolm and Macduff call for the attack on Dunsinane
Scene 7, p326 Macbeth kills Young Siward as Malcolm, Macduff, Siward enter Dunsinane.
Scene 8, p327 Macduff, not of woman born, kills Macbeth; Malcolm becomes the new king.
How to Quote from Works by Shakespeare
by Dr. Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College English Department
Assuming that it is clear from the context of your paper which play you are quoting from, you need not identify the work by its title. At the end of the quotation from Shakespeare, place parentheses, in which you put three numbers, separated by periods. The first number is the act, the second is the scene, and the third the line numbers quoted, the first one and the last one, separated by dash. The parentheses locating the quotation come after the quotation mark and before the punctuation of your own sentence. Here are three examples:
1) "So shaken as we are, so wan with care," Henry announces to his court (1.1.1).
2) Henry appears infirm from the very beginning of the play: "So shaken as we are, so wan with care" (1.1.1).
3) Henry thinks of the terrain of England as a thirsty mother perversely feeding on the blood of her sons: "No more the thirsty entrance of this soil / Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood" (1.1.5-6).
Note the use of the slash (/)--preceded and followed by a space--to separate lines of poetry in example #3. This is standard practice when you are quoting blank verse (iambic pentameter) from Shakespeare into your own text.
Sometimes--though not often in short essays--you will want to quote a larger block of verse, four verse lines or more, which you then should discuss in close, careful detail. Usually this sort of quotation will be introduced by a full colon (:) and then indented ten spaces from your left-hand margin. You will no longer need slashes to separate lines, nor quotation marks; instead, the quotation should appear as it does on the printed page.
4) Henry's first speech is full of metaphors of physical distress: (Students, I added hyphens to simulate 10 spaces. You don't.)
----------So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
----------Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
----------And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
----------To be commenced in strands far remote. (1.1.1-4)
In this instance, the parentheses locating the quotation follow the final punctuation mark. Note that all citations in parentheses are in Arabic rather than Roman numerals.
Do note, finally, that Shakespeare also writes some scenes in prose. You need to know the difference!
Please consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research for more information and additional examples.
