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Romeo and Juliet
Forbidden Love and Family Loyalty
Who is William Shakespeare?
The Globe Theater
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The Globe Theatre
• Where Shakespeare’s
plays were performed.
• Housed everyone from
common drunks to the
Queen.
• Had no roof and plays
were performed at 2pm
because there was no
electricity to light the
stage.
The Globe
• The floor was muddy
(made worse by
people urinating on
it because they’d
been to the local
tavern before).
• You had to pay extra
for a cushion on your
seat (but if you had
a seat you were
pretty rich
anyway!).
•Most people watching
the play were illiterate.
•If they didn’t
understand or enjoy the
play, they would throw
objects at the actors.
•Objects ranged from
their shoes to clumps of
soaked mud from the
floor.
To prevent his actors
from being heckled off
stage, Shakespeare:
• Used the most
dramatic words
• Included very shocking
(at the time) themes
• Created intriguing and
entertaining
characters.
The fact that his plays
are still extremely
popular over four
hundred years later
proves he was doing
something right!
The Globe
Who was William Shakespeare?
• Born in 1564 to John and Mary Arden
Shakespeare
• 1582: Married to Anne
• 1583: Birth of Daughter Susanna
• 1585: Birth of twins: Judith and Hamnet
• 1587-1592: Established in London as
actor/playwright; first work Comedy of
Errors
Who was William Shakespeare?
• 1593: Begins writing sonnets (until 1597-ish)
• 1594-1596: Some more famous plays
Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s
Dream
• 1597-1608: Best known plays including the
rest of the tragedies
• 1599: The Globe Theatre built
• 1609: Publication of the Sonnets
• April 23, 1616: Shakespeare dies
The Time Period
• Elizabethan Era
• The Renaissance
• Actors were men only
o
Young boys played female
roles
• Plays were one of the main sources of
entertainment
Three Classifications of
Shakespearean Drama:
• COMEDY
• HISTORY
• TRAGEDY
His Works
• Poetry
o
o
The Sonnets
The Rape of Lucrece
• Plays (a partial list– he wrote 37)
 Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
Macbeth, Othello
 Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream,
 Histories: Richard III, Henry V
Romeo and Juliet is a…
Tragedy
TRAGIC HERO
Qualities of a Tragic Hero:
• Possesses high importance or rank
• Exhibits extraordinary talents
• Displays a tragic flaw—an error in judgment or
defect in character—that leads to downfall
• Faces downfall with courage and dignity
Romeo & Juliet
Who’s Who?
The Montagues
• Romeo – son to Montague.
• Benvolio – nephew to Montague & friend to
Romeo.
• Balthasar – servant & friend to Romeo.
• Mercutio – friend to Romeo.
• Lady Montague – wife to Lord Montague.
• Montague – Romeo’s father and head of
the family.
• Friar Lawrence – a local priest, friend of
Romeo.
Romeo & Juliet
Who’s Who?
Capulets
• Paris – a young nobleman.
• Juliet – daughter to Capulet.
• Capulet – Juliet’s father and head of
the family.
• Lady Capulet – wife to Lord Capulet.
• Nurse – servant & Nurse to Juliet.
• Tybalt – nephew to the Capulets.
The Main Themes in R&J
Love at first
sight – common 16th
century belief that if you
didn’t fall in love at first
sight then you weren’t
really in love.
Hate
The two families hate each
other and are constantly
fighting, causing many
deaths. Are they right to
continue to hate even though
they don’t know why?
Fate Another common belief was that
your future was mapped out in the
stars and you couldn’t influence the
future in anyway. Do you believe in
fate? Why?
Loyalty
Some characters have
certain loyalties:
• The Nurse to Juliet
• The Friar to Romeo
and The Montagues
• Do you think you have
to be loyal to someone
just because it is
expected of you?
Honesty
Many of the characters lie and deceive to
get what they want such as the Friar,
Romeo and Juliet. How far would you go
to get what you wanted in life?
Do a few lies here and there matter?
Tricky words
• Ere
• Thee
• Thence
• Thou
• Whence
• Thy
• Hence
• Wherefore
• Hither
BLANK VERSE
• Written like poetry
• But tells a story
• More free-flowing rules
o
doesn’t have a rhyme scheme or set number
of lines, etc.
• Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Pentameter
• Lines have a rhythm to them
• 10 syllables
• Pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables
• It IS a VEry DARK and LONEly NIGHT!
He JESTS at SCARS that NEV er FELT a WOUND
But SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow BREAKS?
SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE
•Soliloquy:
•Long speech given by a character
while alone on stage to reveal his or
her private thoughts or intentions
•Aside:
•Character’s quiet remark to the
audience or another character that no
one else on stage is supposed to hear
DRAMATIC IRONY
• Irony—contrast between appearance and
reality
• Dramatic Irony—the audience or reader
knows something the character(s) does
not know
Shakespearian Words
Act I
• dog – a man of low standing in society, no
one wants anything to do with him
• maidenhead - virginity
• bite my thumb – the ultimate insult (like
giving someone the finger)
• shrift - confession
• coz - nephew
Act I Vocabulary Words
• adversary –opponent; enemy
• boisterous – noisily jolly or rowdy
• nuptial – having to do with marriage or a
marriage ceremony
• augmenting – adding to
• warrant – swear
• begot - born
Act II Vocabulary
1. cunning - skillful, sly, clever
2. vile - repulsive, wicked, disgusting
3. predominant - having superior strength,
influence, or authority
4. unwieldy - hard to manage because of size or
weight
5. bounty - generosity, something given
generously
6. substantial - existing, real, not imaginary
7. imagery - word pictures, words that paint a
picture
Conflict
• External
o Man
o Man
o Man
vs. Man Example:
vs. Nature Example:
vs. Society Example:
• Internal
o Man
vs. himself Example:
Figurative Language
• Simile – comparison using “like”
or “as”
o
Her face is like a summer’s day…
• Metaphor – comparison by
saying one thing is another;
finding similarities in two
seemingly unalike things
o
“I am the East, and Juliet is the West…”
Figurative Language
• Pun – play on words
o
"Vandals destroyed many road signs. They really pulled out all the
stops."
• Alliteration - group of words that
begin with the same letter or
sound
o
desire doth in his deathbed lie
Foreshadowing
• A hint about what is to come in literature
or what the outcome of the conflict will be
Foil
• A character with qualities that are in sharp
contrast to another character, thus
emphasizing the qualities of each
• How is Mercutio a foil to Romeo?
Do Now
Assume that you write an advice column for
a newspaper or magazine. A modern day
Romeo (or Juliet) writes to you asking for
advice. He or she explains what happened
at the party and also mentions the family
feud.
1.Write what his or her letter says.
2.Write your response
Journal Entry
Write about a time when you've done
something wrong
and it's affected others around you.
• What did you do?
• How did it affect others?
• What consequences did you face?
• Did you resolve it?