What is a motif?
A recurring word, place, image, object, idea, or action in a work of literature
What was the source for Macbeth?
Holinshed’s Chronicles
Macbeth’s setting..
Scotland
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to please….
King James 1
Theories about who wrote Shakespeare’s plays
Edward Devere, William Stanley, Christopher Marlowe, Queen Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon