Illuminated Texts on Macbeth

Illuminated Texts on or related to Macbeth. Some of these are created using Microsoft Power Point and to hear the audio you will need to be using Windows, have Internet Explorer as your browser. For the presentations done using Adobe Flash you will need to have the Adobe Flash Player (most computers already do). For .mp4 presentations, Quicktime is required.

Lady Macbeth: How to Kill a Duncan

Submitted by BIgBaby101 on Mon, 2010-01-25 10:13

Act 3 Scene 7  This is an illuminated text of Lady Macbeth's speech to Macbeth when they are plotting to kill Duncan. Throughtout the speech she uses questions to answerthe questions that Macbeth is thinking about. Although she has not went through her character change yet shakespeare foreshadows her future change in morals at the end of the speech.

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Daniel Covington

This Meaning-less life - An Illuminated Text of Shakespeare's Macbeth - "Life is a Tale..."

Submitted by litlover93 on Mon, 2010-01-25 11:24

This Illuminated texts takes you through the motions and thoughts of Macbeth's final soliloquy after the announcement of Lady Macbeth’s death. In this speech Macbeth comes to his deepest understanding of the insignificance of his life. Which he describes as being controlled by someone or something beyond us and that we play parts scripted in this “drama” called life.

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Jeanine Botwe

It is a tale told by an idiot

Submitted by B1Gcooki3monst3r on Mon, 2010-01-25 19:36

This is an illuminated text from Act 5 Scene 5, when Macbeth talks about how Lady Macbeth should have died later, because everything he is doing is for her. She should be there to see his victories, and to celebrate with him and not him alone. Now that Lady Macbeth is dead, Macbeth feels as if life is meaningless, and there's no reason to do what he has been doing. WIthout a purpose, life becomes meaningless.

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Lori Chiu

Macbeth Dagger Speech: An Illuminated Text by Becky Martin

Submitted by rqmartin on Tue, 2010-11-23 09:17

This is my first real attempt at an illuminated text. I chose the dagger speech from Macbeth--Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play--primarily because there was such opportunity to use blood motifs. It was not difficult, but it was certainly time-consuming (5 hours). I think this activity/assessment could be highly beneficial to many of my students. I can't wait to try it!

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Becky Martin
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Malcolm's Soliloquy: The End of Macbeth

Submitted by Leemozeen on Mon, 2011-01-24 00:28

 This illuminated text is on the final text in the whole play of Macbeth: Malcolm's victory speech. Malcolm speaks of what should be done now that the tyrant Macbeth is dead, and of his kingship. He will restore Scotland to his former glory, and rule kindly. 

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Andrew Caniglia
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Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot

Submitted by maxinegarcia on Wed, 2011-01-26 14:39

 This is an illuminated text created by power point version 2007.  I took the Macbeth soliloquy, which is said after he is told of his wife's recent death.  He explains his views on what life is, and I found it very impressionable. I tried to capture the idea as I viewed it, and therefore I hope you enjoy it!

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Maxine Garcia

Oh Banquo

Submitted by Nightly on Mon, 2011-01-31 15:32

This illuminated text focuses on Banquo's soliloquy in Act III Scene I. He talks to himself, complaining about how Macbeth has it all. Banquo expresses how Macbeth's ambitions got him his titles while Banquo is of a lower social rank, In this soliloquy, you can also find some jealousy within Banquo's words such as "Thou has it now", while Banquo himself does not.

I hope everyone who watches this enjoys the movement of the text and the arrangement of the words. This illuminated text has no pictures, only words and letters.

Thank you

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Victor Liu

The Curtained Sleep - An Illuminated Text of "Is this a Dagger?"

Submitted by Kermit the Killah on Mon, 2011-03-28 18:02

This is an Illuminated Text by Jonathan Dale covering Macbeth's Dagger Soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 1. Macbeth is debating whether or not he should kill Duncan, and he hallucinates, believing that he sees a dagger in front of him, leading him to kill Duncan. Crazy stuff, I know. Pretty, pretty, crazy.  [This is a really great Illuminated Text that uses a minimum amount of images and colors to great effect.  JRS]

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Jonathan Dale

"See...and Believe" : An Illumination of The History of Love.

Submitted by Daughter1616 on Thu, 2011-10-27 00:12

We illuminated an excerpt for the History of Love. We explored the relationship between Leo and the younger Alma at the end of his life. In our text Leo exploring what is real and what he is imagining. He is coming to term with the fact that most of the things he he sees are imaginary. Our text all discusses how Alma adores Leo and for her he would do anything.

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Adaobi Ekwueme
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Tiffany Clay

"See...and Believe" : An Illumination of The History of Love.

Submitted by Daughter1616 on Thu, 2011-10-27 00:12

We illuminated an excerpt for the History of Love. We explored the relationship between Leo and the younger Alma at the end of his life. In our text Leo exploring what is real and what he is imagining. He is coming to term with the fact that most of the things he he sees are imaginary. Our text all discusses how Alma adores Leo and for her he would do anything.

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Adaobi Ekwueme
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Tiffany Clay

Great Ambition and Great Fear: An Illuminated Text of Macbeth Act I, Scene v, Lines 15-33

Submitted by savinadav on Tue, 2013-01-01 14:56

This illuminated text is of the soliloquy from Macbeth Act I, Scene 5. This soliloquy is the first glimpse we have of Lady Macbeth’s thirst for power. We not only see this desire, but we see the beginning of her role as the driving force behind Macbeth’s actions in asserting power. She doubts her husband’s ruthlessness and foresees her role in fulfilling the witches‘ prophecies as a dominant one. Her words illustrate this and evoke a sense of malevolence, which is why certain words, such as “spirits,” have been shown in red (to represent evil and bloodthirstiness) .

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Shir Avinadav
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The Heat Oppressed Brain: An Illuminated Text by Christine Lee and Terry Lam

Submitted by angelsoju8 on Tue, 2013-01-15 01:22

Our main goal in making this illuminated text was to be able to bring Shakespeare's words to life in the dagger scene from Act 2 Scene 1. Terry and I both agreed to do this soliloquy because we felt that this scene was a great representation of the beginning of Macbeth's downfall, as well as his upcoming mental instability. We decided to use a dull color scheme in our presentation because this scene took place at night, and also to portray the dark and twisted thoughts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Public Domain Extra Credit Music:
http://musopen.org/music/piece/839

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Christine Lee
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Terry Lam - period 4

Bloody Resolve: A Macbeth Illuminated Text by Elizabeth Mucha and Renee Leber

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2007-09-26 09:08

a blood red waveThe first Shakespeare Illuminated Text on our site and one of the best.  The students use  Macbeth's own words to indict his bloody intentions -- the movement of the words, the letters, and the music create a masterful impression of Shakespeare's words.  [We now have a Flash Video version of this presentation - if you've had any trouble hearing the sound and/or video choose that version.] Shakespeare works wonderfully for these Illuminated Texts -

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Life is a Tale told with Stephen Booth Moments: An Illuminated Text of Shakespeare's Macbeth

Submitted by awesfliper330 on Sun, 2010-01-24 20:14

a screenshot from this Illuminated TextFor this soliloquie I choose to do the one from Act 5 Sc 5. In this one Macbeth finds about his wife's death and is remembering the reasons for him becoming king. There is a specific reason why I choose the song that is played in this illuminated text and that is because my piano teacher talked about this song and told a story on how the theme of the song is always reoccuring.

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Irreconcilable Differences- An Illuminated Text of Shakespeare's Macbeth

Submitted by Jennabean1126 on Sun, 2010-01-24 23:48

a screenshotFor our Illuminated text we pulled from 2 soliloquies: one by Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5) and one from Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7). They were meant to contrast each other by showing how desperately Lady Macbeth craved to do the deed of killing Duncan and Macbeth is voicing his apprehension to the action. For being husband and wife they could not have two more different opinions (hence our title).  [They did a great job here - and that starts with their concentration on the actual text - the choice of font - and the animations that they use that explicate Shakespeare's words. JRS]

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Jenna Rozelle
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Yutian Sheng 9th Period
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