1. Introduction to Romeo and Juliet

2. 1. What is meant by the term “star-crossed”?

3. 1. What is meant by the term “star-crossed”?
Doomed to disaster by fate.
(born under the wrong sign)

4. 1. What is meant by the term “star-crossed”?
The Elizabethans (people living under rule of Queen Elizabeth) believed in astrology ruling people’s lives.

5. 2. How important do you think fate is in affecting what happens to us in life, and to what degree you think we control our own destinies?

6. 1. & 6. List the dates of Shakespeare’s birth and death.

7. 1. & 6. List the dates of Shakespeare’s birth and death.
April 23, 1564
April 23, 1616

8. 7. How old was he when he died?

9. 7. How old was he when he died?52

10. 2. Where was Shakespeare born?

11. 3. Where was Shakespeare born?
Stratford, England (about 100 miles northwest of London) (Stratford-upon-Avon)

12. 3. Describe Shakespeare’s education.

13. 3. Describe Shakespeare’s education.
Attended grammar school
Studied Latin grammar, Latin literature, and rhetoric (the uses of language)
Had no further formal education

14. 4. Why was the theatrical group the King’s Men named “the King’s Men”?

15. 4. Why was the theatrical group the King’s Men named “the King’s Men”?
King James gave them financial support. He sponsored them.

16. 5. How many plays did Shakespeare write?

17. 5. How many plays did Shakespeare write?37

18. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Comedies
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
All's Well That Ends Well
Pericles Prince of Tyre
The Winter's Tale
Cymbeline
The Tempest

19. Histories Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI , part 2 Henry VI, part 3
Richard III
Richard II
King John
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VIII

20. Tragedies Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Hamlet
Othello
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus

21. 1. What was the name of the first permanent theatre in London?

22. 1. What was the name of the first permanent theatre in London?
the Theatre

23. 2. Why did Shakespeare call his Globe Theater a “wooden O”?

24. 7. Why did Shakespeare call his Globe Theater a “wooden O”?
Because it was made of wood and had a round shape (actually polygonal).

27. 3. Give three uses for the balconies onstage:

28. 3. Give three uses for the balconies onstage:
Juliet’s balcony
High walls of a castle
Bridge of a ship

29. 4. Give two uses for the trap doors onstage:

30. 4. Give two uses for the trap doors onstage:
Entrances and exits of ghosts
Descents into hell

31. 5. Describe the lighting used in the Globe:

32. 5. Describe the lighting used in the Globe:

33. 6. How was the stage or the location of the play “set”?

34. 6. How was the stage or the location of the play “set”?
By the language:
“What a lovely day it is here in the forest of Arden.”
“Captain, come up here on deck!”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

35. 7. Who were the “groundlings”?

36. 7. Who were the “groundlings”?
The poor people, who stood shoulder to shoulder around the stage for the price of a penny.

38. 8. What is the “interesting aspect” described on page 801 that made Shakespeare’s theater very different from our own?

39. Acting was not considered respectable by the English Puritans, so all women’s parts were played by boys and men.

40. 9. Describe a “proscenium” stage.

41. 9. Describe a “proscenium” stage:
There is no outer stage—only an inner stage separated from the audience by a curtain.

42. . . . as opposed to a “thrust” stage:
The stage thrusts out into the audience, and the audience sits on three or even four sides of the stage.

43. 1. In Romeo & Juliet, which characters speak in prose, and which in poetry?

44. 1. In Romeo & Juliet, which characters speak in prose, and which in poetry?
Prose: common people, Mercutio when he is joking Poetry: everyone else—the majority of the characters

45. 2. What is an iamb?

46. hel-lo to-day But soft! 2. What is an iamb?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable:
hel-lo
to-day
But soft!

47. 3. What is iambic pentameter?

48. 3. What is iambic pentameter?
5 iambs in a row—in a line of poetry:
But soft! What light through yon-der win-dow breaks?
It is the East, and Ju-liet is the sun.
A-rise, fair sun, and kill the en-vious moon.
Two house-holds both a-like in dig-ni-ty
In fair Ve-ro-na where we lay our scene

49. 4. What is a couplet?

50. 4. What is a couplet?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme: Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

51. 5. What’s an end-stopped line?

52. 5. What’s an end-stopped line?
Has punctuation at the end of the line: O, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

53. 5. What’s a run-on line?

54. 5. What’s a run-on line?
A line of poetry that has no punctuation at its end: The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.

55. 6. Explain what “archaic” means.

56. 6. Explain what “archaic” means.
Words or meaning of words that have disappeared from common use:
Soft!—Quiet! (But soft! Here comes my nurse!)
Anon—Soon (I will go to church anon.)
Mark—Listen to (Mark well what I have to say.)

57. The End