Can anyone help me about these Problems regarding two story's of Shakespeare please?

Question

*First Problem-_-_-_-_-Can anyone write the story of The Taming of the Shrew in a short view or summary please ?(Write about the characters also)
*Second Problem-_-_-_-_-Can anyone write the story of Macbeth in a short view or summary please ?(Write about the characters also).
Thank's

Answer 1

Well, there was a version of Taming of the Shrew in modern English and it was hilarious!
Anyway, let me see if I can remember enough of it. You ask for a short summary with characters.

Well, I'll try. The "shrew" that needs taming in the title is named Katherine. She has a couple suitors already but she thinks little of any of them. This guy, Petruchio, wants a wealthy wife and hears Katherine is from a wealthy family. He agrees to marry her, but when they meet, Katherine makes rude comments to and about him. She keeps trying to insult and degrade him.

He has made up his mind he is going to marry her regardless and actually takes it as a challenge that he is going to marry her and break her spirit, making her a good wife to him. She takes his challenge and they actually get married.

Petruchio takes her to his home, but he continues to try and break her spirit by not letting her eat or sleep, and finally he has her agreeing to everything he says.

Meanwhile there are two other marriages going on. Hortensio is marrying a widow who has a lot of money, and Bianca and Lucentio are getting married, too. Lucentio won Bianca heart with poetry and stuff like that. He is a rich guy with servants, so Bianca is really in love with his money, but nobody knows that, thinking she is in love with him because of the poetry and all that.

At the end the three men have a bet about which one has the most obedient wife. The "shrew" Katherine turns out to be the most obedient of all of them, because she really has decided that this guy who vowed to break her, really was the guy for her. She has fallen in love with him.

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Let me think, now We had to read MacBeth was back in High School. I don't know if I can remember it, but I will try: Oh, and we had to learn the real history along with it, because Shakespeare was English and writing for an English audience, so he didn't stick to the real history in his play. He wrote it the way English people wanted to hear it.

Ok, in actual history MacBeth was the king of Scotland, the last of the Gaelic kings and very well loved by his people. Malcolm was an English turncoat that sold out the Scots to the English.

In the story, however, MacBeth and his friend Banquo meets three witches who prophesy that he will become king of Scotland. He invites the current king, Duncan to his (MacBeth's) castle and murder's him.
[In actual history they met in battle and MacBeth's forces were victorious. Duncan was killed in the battle. About 5 years later he met and defeated another army, led by Duncan's father, Crinan, and Crinan was killed.]

(back to the story) Banquo had also gotten a prophesy that he would never be king, but his heirs would be kings. MacBeth hires murders to kill Banquo and especially his son to protect his throne. They do kill Banquo, but his son escapes driving MacBeth into a mad crazed rant.

He also is worried about MacDuff being after his throne. MacDuff escapes to England and MacBeth kills MacDuffs family Shakespeare wrote that MacDuff and all the Scottish nobles wanted MacBeth dethroned, and supported Malcolm's English army when it came to fight MacBeth.
In the play, MacBeth's wife commited suicide and MacBeth was killed by MacDuff.

[ In reality, the nobles were in favor of MacBeth and none of them supported Malcolm, but Malcolm had a large English army behind him that managed to defeat MacBeth's army in battle, killing MacBeth. History records that Malcom himself delivered the death blow to MacBeth, and MacDuff was not there. MacBeth's step-son, Lulach, became king for over a year, but the throne finally was taken by Malcolm. Malcolm becomes King Malcolm III. It is said he crowned himself king, because none of the Scottish nobles would do it.
Oh, and Malcolm instituted English as the official language of the royal court, in place of Gaelic which Scots had spoken up to that time. That was why MacBeth was called the last of the Gaelic kings, even though Lulach also spoke Gaelic, but his reign was very short.]

Answer 2

Really now, you should be reading them yourself (or at least doing your own google search for summaries if you really aren't going to do your homework). Shakespeare is one of the top cliffnotes/sparknotes/gradesaver requests, so it's readily available.

If you're simply having a difficult time understanding the plots of the plays, I'd recommend taking a look at Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. It's a reputable classic source that is easy to understand, and gives you more than the summary sites listed above.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

(STUDY GUIDES.)

These links will give you a scene by scene summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://cummingsstudyguides.net/xTaming.html#Taming%20of%20the%20Shrew

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/shrew/

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tos/

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/tamings.asp


Macbeth by William Shakespeare

STUDY GUIDES

These links will give you an act by act summary of the play, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mac/

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/macbeth/

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xMacbeth.html

Answer 5

Try these sites:

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/


http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/

Or just read the plays. Good luck.

Answer 6

Do your own home work

Answer 7

Taming of the Shrew:

"In the English countryside, a poor tinker named Christopher Sly becomes the target of a prank by a local lord. Finding Sly drunk out of his wits in front of an alehouse, the lord has his men take Sly to his manor, dress him in his finery, and treat him as a lord. When Sly recovers, the men tell him that he is a lord and that he only believes himself to be a tinker because he has been insane for the past several years. Waking in the lord’s bed, Sly at first refuses to accept the men’s story, but when he hears of his “wife,” a pageboy dressed in women’s clothing, he readily agrees that he is the lord they purport him to be. Sly wants to be left alone with his wife, but the servants tell him that a troupe of actors has arrived to present a play for him. The play that Sly watches makes up the main story of The Taming of the Shrew.

In the Italian city of Padua, a rich young man named Lucentio arrives with his servants, Tranio and Biondello, to attend the local university. Lucentio is excited to begin his studies, but his priorities change when he sees Bianca, a beautiful, mild young woman with whom Lucentio instantly falls in love. There are two problems: first, Bianca already has two suitors, Gremio and Hortensio; second, Bianca’s father, a wealthy old man named Baptista Minola, has declared that no one may court Bianca until first her older sister, the vicious, ill-tempered Katherine, is married. Lucentio decides to overcome this problem by disguising himself as Bianca’s Latin tutor to gain an excuse to be in her company. Hortensio disguises himself as her music teacher for the same reason. While Lucentio pretends to be Bianca’s tutor, Tranio dresses up as Lucentio and begins to confer with Baptista about the possibility of marrying his daughter.
The Katherine problem is solved for Bianca’s suitors when Hortensio’s friend Petruccio, a brash young man from Verona, arrives in Padua to find a wife. He intends to marry a rich woman, and does not care what she is like as long as she will bring him a fortune. He agrees to marry Katherine sight unseen. The next day, he goes to Baptista’s house to meet her, and they have a tremendous duel of words. As Katherine insults Petruccio repeatedly, Petruccio tells her that he will marry her whether she agrees or not. He tells Baptista, falsely, that Katherine has consented to marry him on Sunday. Hearing this claim, Katherine is strangely silent, and the wedding is set.
On Sunday, Petruccio is late to his own wedding, leaving Katherine to fear she will become an old maid. When Petruccio arrives, he is dressed in a ridiculous outfit and rides on a -broken-down horse. After the wedding, Petruccio forces Katherine to leave for his country house before the feast, telling all in earshot that she is now his property and that he may do with her as he pleases. Once they reach his country house, Petruccio continues the process of “taming” Katherine by keeping her from eating or sleeping for several days—he pretends that he loves her so much he cannot allow her to eat his inferior food or to sleep in his poorly made bed.
In Padua, Lucentio wins Bianca’s heart by wooing her with a Latin translation that declares his love. Hortensio makes the same attempt with a music lesson, but Bianca loves Lucentio, and Hortensio resolves to marry a wealthy widow. Tranio secures Baptista’s approval for Lucentio to marry Bianca by proposing a huge sum of money to lavish on her. Baptista agrees but says that he must have this sum confirmed by Lucentio’s father before the marriage can take place. Tranio and Lucentio, still in their respective disguises, feel there is nothing left to do but find an old man to play the role of Lucentio’s father. Tranio enlists the help of an old pedant, or schoolmaster, but as the pedant speaks to Baptista, Lucentio and Bianca decide to circumvent the complex situation by eloping.
Katherine and Petruccio soon return to Padua to visit Baptista. On the way, Petruccio forces Katherine to say that the sun is the moon and that an old man is really a beautiful young maiden. Since Katherine’s willfulness is dissipating, she agrees that all is as her -husband says. On the road, the couple meets Lucentio’s father, Vincentio, who is on his way to Padua to see his son. In Padua, Vincentio is shocked to find Tranio masquerading as Lucentio. At last, Bianca and Lucentio arrive to spread the news of their marriage. Both Vincentio and Baptista finally agree to the marriage.

At the banquet following Hortensio’s wedding to the widow, the other characters are shocked to see that Katherine seems to have been “tamed”—she obeys everything that Petruccio says and gives a long speech advocating the loyalty of wives to their husbands. When the three new husbands stage a contest to see which of their wives will obey first when summoned, everyone expects Lucentio to win. Bianca, however, sends a message back refusing to obey, while Katherine comes immediately. The others acknowledge that Petruccio has won an astonishing victory, and the happy Katherine and Petruccio leave the banquet to go to bed."


Macbeth

The play begins with the brief appearance of a trio of witches and then moves to a military camp, where the Scottish King Duncan hears the news that his generals, Macbeth and Banquo, have defeated two separate invading armies—one from Ireland, led by the rebel Macdonald, and one from Norway. Following their pitched battle with these enemy forces, Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches as they cross a moor. The witches prophesy that Macbeth will be made thane (a rank of Scottish nobility) of Cawdor and eventually king of Scotland. They also prophesy that Macbeth’s companion, Banquo, will beget a line of Scottish kings, although Banquo will never be king himself. The witches vanish, and Macbeth and Banquo treat their prophecies skeptically until some of King Duncan’s men come to thank the two generals for their victories in battle and to tell Macbeth that he has indeed been named thane of Cawdor. The previous thane betrayed Scotland by fighting for the Norwegians and Duncan has condemned him to death. Macbeth is intrigued by the possibility that the remainder of the witches’ prophecy—that he will be crowned king—might be true, but he is uncertain what to expect. He visits with King Duncan, and they plan to dine together at Inverness, Macbeth’s castle, that night. Macbeth writes ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her all that has happened.

Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband’s uncertainty. She desires the kingship for him and wants him to murder Duncan in order to obtain it. When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husband’s objections and persuades him to kill the king that very night. He and Lady Macbeth plan to get Duncan’s two chamberlains drunk so they will black out; the next morning they will blame the murder on the chamberlains, who will be defenseless, as they will remember nothing. While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite his doubts and a number of supernatural portents, including a vision of a bloody dagger. When Duncan’s death is discovered the next morning, Macbeth kills the chamberlains—ostensibly out of rage at their crime—and easily assumes the kingship. Duncan’s sons Malcolm and Donalbain flee to England and Ireland, respectively, fearing that whoever killed Duncan desires their demise as well.
Fearful of the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s heirs will seize the throne, Macbeth hires a group of murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. They ambush Banquo on his way to a royal feast, but they fail to kill Fleance, who escapes into the night. Macbeth becomes furious: as long as Fleance is alive, he fears that his power remains insecure. At the feast that night, Banquo’s ghost visits Macbeth. When he sees the ghost, Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, who include most of the great Scottish nobility. Lady Macbeth tries to neutralize the damage, but Macbeth’s kingship incites increasing resistance from his nobles and subjects. Frightened, Macbeth goes to visit the witches in their cavern. There, they show him a sequence of demons and spirits who present him with further prophecies: he must beware of Macduff, a Scottish nobleman who opposed Macbeth’s accession to the throne; he is incapable of being harmed by any man born of woman; and he will be safe until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Castle. Macbeth is relieved and feels secure, because he knows that all men are born of women and that forests cannot move. When he learns that Macduff has fled to England to join Malcolm, Macbeth orders that Macduff’s castle be seized and, most cruelly, that Lady Macduff and her children be murdered.
When news of his family’s execution reaches Macduff in England, he is stricken with grief and vows revenge. Prince Malcolm, Duncan’s son, has succeeded in raising an army in England, and Macduff joins him as he rides to Scotland to challenge Macbeth’s forces. The invasion has the support of the Scottish nobles, who are appalled and frightened by Macbeth’s tyrannical and murderous behavior. Lady Macbeth, meanwhile, becomes plagued with fits of sleepwalking in which she bemoans what she believes to be bloodstains on her hands. Before Macbeth’s opponents arrive, Macbeth receives news that she has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair. Nevertheless, he awaits the English and fortifies Dunsinane, to which he seems to have withdrawn in order to defend himself, certain that the witches’ prophecies guarantee his invincibility. He is struck numb with fear, however, when he learns that the English army is advancing on Dunsinane shielded with boughs cut from Birnam Wood. Birnam Wood is indeed coming to Dunsinane, fulfilling half of the witches’ prophecy.
In the battle, Macbeth hews violently, but the English forces gradually overwhelm his army and castle. On the battlefield, Macbeth encounters the vengeful Macduff, who declares that he was not “of woman born” but was instead “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb (what we now call birth by cesarean section). Though he realizes that he is doomed, Macbeth continues to fight until Macduff kills and beheads him. Malcolm, now the king of Scotland, declares his benevolent intentions for the country and invites all to see him crowned at Scone."