Introduction to Shakespeare, Macbeth, connections to today and how the Gunpowder Plot relates to Macbeth & Shakespeare

1. Divine Right
of Kings
GOD says who should
be King or Queen
Power given by GOD
Follows rule / law of
GOD

2. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#1 - Catherine of Aragon
Married to Henry’s brother
who died then married Henry
VIII
Married 1509 - 1533
(Divorced) ---had a daughter
Mary

3. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#1 - Catherine of Aragon
(Divorced) ---Mary
#2 – Ann Boylen married
1533 – 1536 (Executed) –
had a daughter Elizabeth

4. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#1 - Catherine of Aragon
(Divorced) ---Mary
#2 – Ann Boylen (Executed)
– Elizabeth
#3 – Jane Seymour married
24 hours after Ann executed
1536 – 1537 (died)
Had a son Edward
Died in childbirth / buried
with Henry VIII

5. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#1 - Catherine of Aragon
(Divorced) ---Mary
#2 – Ann Boylen (Executed)
– Elizabeth
#3 – Jane Seymour (died)
#4 – Anne of Cleves married
January – July 1540
Not attractive / no children
(divorced)

6. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#1 - Catherine of Aragon (Divorced) ---Mary
#2 – Ann Boylen (Executed) – Elizabeth
#3 – Jane Seymour (died)
#4 – Anne of Cleves (divorced)
#5 – Kathryn Howard
married 1540 – 1542
She was 19 / Henry was 49
She cheated / he had her
executed

7. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#1 - Catherine of Aragon
(Divorced) ---Mary
#2 – Ann Boylen (Executed)
– Elizabeth
#3 – Jane Seymour (died)
#4 – Anne of Cleves
(divorced)
#5 – Kathryn Howard
(executed)
#6 – Katherine Parr married
1543 – 1547 (widowed)

8. Henry VIII – TUTOR – 6 wives
#6 – Katherine Parr married
1543 – 1547 (widowed)
She married Thomas
Seymour (brother of Jane
Seymour) – caught Princess
Elizabeth in bed with her
husband, Elizabeth sent
away…

9. Mary –
Edward VI Bloody Mary Elizabeth I
Protestant Catholic Protestant

10. Connection to Today
Lady Gaga – Bloody Mary Mary

12. Father – Henry VIII
Tudor
Mother – Ann Boleyn
(Henry’s 2nd Wife –
beheaded when
Elizabeth was 3 years
old)

18. Globe Theatre

21. Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

24. • 1606 – Macbeth – 1st
performed

25. Guy Fawkes

26. Symbol of Occupy Wall Street
November 5, 1605 – Gunpowder Plot

29. 3 Witches

36. Shakespeare’s Titles
Ides of March
(Julius Caesar)

37. Shakespeare’s Titles
Ides of March
(Julius Caesar)

38. Shakespeare’s Titles
Ides of March
(Julius Caesar)

39. Shakespeare’s Titles
Ides of March
(Julius Caesar)