What is a Feud?

Concise Oxford Dictionary: Noun. A prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute. A state of prolonged mutual hostility, typically between two families or communities.

What began the Feud? Why were the Capulets and Montagues such bitter enemies?

The play gives no history.

Juliet Nancy André Capulet Martim Rente Lady Capulet Hanna Choi Cha Tybalt Sebastian Deuster Nurse Dayana Rojkind Peter Martim Rente Cousin Capulet Sebastian Deuster Sampson Martim Rente Gregory Sebastian Deuster Clown Hanna Choi Cha Petrucio Dayana Rojkind The House of Capulet

RomeoGustavo Gro. MontagueEduardo R. Lady Montague Varsha V. Benvolio Eduardo Hdz. Balthasar Eduardo R. Abram Gustavo Gro. The House of Montague

The Court Prince Escales Mr. Weir Mercutio Eduardo Hernandez Paris Eduardo Reineux Page to Paris Varsha Valamani The Church Friar Lawrence Martim Rente Friar John Varsha Velamani Chorus Mr. Weir

Imagine yourself in The Globe theatre. It is daylight, and you are surrounded by three thousand people. The chorus enters the stage and the people start to hush. At the first word there is dead silence. The prologue

What is a sonnet?

A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. Each line usually contains ten syllables. The sonnet has three quatrains (each of four lines) and a couplet: The first four lines (rhyming ABAB) The next four lines (rhyming CDCD) The next four lines (rhyming EFEF) A couplet (two lines) to finish (rhyming GG)

A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. Each line usually contains ten syllables. The sonnet has three quatrains (each of four lines) and a couplet: The first four lines (rhyming ABAB) The next four lines (rhyming CDCD) The next four lines (rhyming EFEF) A couplet (two lines) to finish (rhyming GG)

A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. Each line usually contains ten syllables. The sonnet has three quatrains (each of four lines) and a couplet: The first four lines (rhyming ABAB)

A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. Each line usually contains ten syllables. The sonnet has three quatrains (each of four lines) and a couplet: The first four lines (rhyming ABAB) The next four lines (rhyming CDCD)

A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. Each line usually contains ten syllables. The sonnet has three quatrains (each of four lines) and a couplet: The first four lines (rhyming ABAB) The next four lines (rhyming CDCD) The next four lines (rhyming EFEF)

A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. Each line usually contains ten syllables. The sonnet has three quatrains (each of four lines) and a couplet: The first four lines (rhyming ABAB) The next four lines (rhyming CDCD) The next four lines (rhyming EFEF) A couplet (two lines) to finish (rhyming GG)

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 starr-crossed lovers take their life; D Whose misadventured piteous overthrows C Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. D

The fearful passage of their death marked love, E And the continuance of the 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

Two households, both alike in dignity, A In fair Verona (where we lay our scene), B From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, A3 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. B From forth the fatal loins of these two foes C A pair of starr-crossed lovers take their life; D Whose misadventured piteous overthrows C Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. D The fearful passage of their death marked love, E And the continuance of the 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

Alike in dignity: equal in high status From forth fatal enemies: conceived by deadly enemies Star Crossed: ill-fated Take their life: are born Misadventured piteous overthrows: unlucky, tragic accidents Fearful passage: tragic unfolding Traffic: business

Capulet’s servants, Sampson and Gregory, joke together and boast that they are superior to the Montagues. Suddenly two of Montague’s servants appear. Sampson urges Gregory to pick a quarrel with them.

Coals: a form of fuel. Carry coals: a dirty, menial task. Colliers: coal-miners. Colliers: a term of abuse (for Elizabethans). Choler: anger (a word no longer used in modern English).

Collar: a yoke (symbol of having to work hard under a master). Collar: a hangman’s noose. Moved: made to feel a strong emotion. Moved: motivated, given a reason to do something.