Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet – a romantic tragedy The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet(1562) Borrowed, expanded and written between 1591 and 1595 First published in 1597 Act 1-5: Sunday to Thursday First performed at the Theatre with Richard Burbage as Romeo

Fate; Love; Hate; Revenge Convince them to stay A Prologue – an introduction which explains the themes of the play. It gives away the plot(events) from beginning to end. Help the audience to work out where the scenes were taking place Why? Direct address of ‘you’ and ‘we’ Fate; Love; Hate; Revenge

Prologue Analysis – the Sonnet 14 lines of love poetry that emerged around the 1200’s Shakespeare made the sonnet famous in the late 1500’s – Shakespearean Sonnet 14 lines: 3 quatrains and a couplet with iambic pentameter( 10 syllables per line) a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g

What is he trying to tell us??? Two households, both alike in dignity, A In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, B From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, A Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. B From forth the fatal loins of these two foes C A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; D Whose misadventured piteous overthrows C Do with their death bury their parents’ strife D The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, E And the continuance of their parents’ rage, F Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, E Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage F The which if you with patient ears attend, G What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend G What is he trying to tell us???

Iambic Pentameter – Rhythm of Speech Iamb – unstressed followed by a stressed syllable(meter) “I am” Penta – five with the meter “Do with/ their death/ bury /their pa/rents’ strife” baBOOM /baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM The opposite is the trochee – Trochaic Tetrameter “Double, double, toil and trouble” BOOMba /BOOMba /BOOMba / BOOMba

“You us’d to call me on my cell phone…”

Get Ready to Work – Buy In! Cornell Note-taking Who is to blame? - group Texting Participation Terminology Quiz Rhythm Exercises Act I to V – annotations Creative writing Act I scene 5 , Act II scene 2 , Act III scene 1 , Act IV scene 1 , Act V scene 3 Act III Questions Torn out pages – Diaries Recital – soliloquy

Take A Look…… Shakespeare, the theatre, Elizabethan England, Romeo and Juliet https://youtu.be/FAfih_YUgMk Cornell Notes Tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_Vzeq5L3g&feature=related a TEDtalk video exploring the similarities between Shakespeare and Hip Hop (rhythm, meter, iambic pentameter)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY

A Play of Opposites Fate versus Free Will Love versus Hate Youth versus Age Life versus Death Peace versus Violence

Critical Questions The Blame Game – scapegoat? Is this play even a tragedy? – Hamartia (Tragic Flaw) Will Romeo and Juliet be the most compelling or most remembered from the play?