Macbeth

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Macbeth English 20

Collect at least five points of information on each of the following:

The universe from the Elizabethan viewpoint (the great chain of being and examples of this in the play)

	The natural order http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/ordersubj.html
	How We Think or "The Great Chain of Being" http://guildofstgeorge.com/chain.htm
	Chain of Being http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Chain_of_Being.pdf
	The Great Chain of Being http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ren.html#being
	The Great Chain of Being and radical politics. - http://web.ebscohost.com/lrc/pdf?vid=10&hid=18&sid=94aabb66-496c-47e3-a2d6-f59227cb62bf%40SRCSM1

Also research one of the following (as assigned):

The real Macbeth (historical background)

	Macbeth http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/macbeth.html
	Macbeth and its sources http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/plays/macsources.html
	Scotland’s Past - Macbeth http://www.scotlandspast.org/macbeth.cfm
	Legends - Shakespeare's Stories – Macbeth http://legends.dm.net/shakespeare/macbeth.html

The curse of Macbeth (the superstition surrounding the performance of “the Scottish play”)

	Superstitions about the play Macbeth http://www.booksbywelwyn.ca/guideCLS.html#super
	The Curse of the Play http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/print?oid=oid%3A78882
	Macbeth: The Male Medusa http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/TT/vr/Quakebeth/curse.html
	Shakespeare's Macbeth (scroll down to the "Curse" section) http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:heurYsA4Ms0J:www.wvup.edu/elamb/Emily%27sPDFfiles/English%2520Shakespeare%2520397/macbeth.pdf+curse+of+macbeth+site:.edu&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=5&lr=lang_en

Witchcraft, alchemy, and superstition in Shakespearean/Elizabethan/Jacobean England

	The supernatural http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/thesupernaturalsubj.html
	Witches and King James http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/daemonologie.html
	An eyewitness to Shakespeare's plays http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/life/forman.html
	Macbeth - Kingcraft and witchcraft - http://www.rsc.org.uk/macbeth/about/essay.html
	Macbeth, King James and the Witches http://homepages.tesco.net/~eandcthomp/macbeth.htm

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