1. Romeo and Juliet
Unit 10

2. About William Shakespeare
Greatest
- types, human nature
+ realistic
- Universality, nature
- Timelessness
- Beauty
- Adaptability
Age, time

3. His Life Author Birthplace Education Hathaway Playwright 154 Plays
King’s, Globe
Money
Christian

4. His Career + nationalism + love + threats + mature + complex
+ dialogue

5. His Philosophy + What, content + How, style + functional + explicit
+ moral tone
- theme, purpose
> Themes
> Characterization

6. Random Facts
Performed
Longest
all

7. Terms Drama, action, oldest Directions, time, exits Dialogue, speeches
Alone, thoughts
- “To Be or Not to Be”
Comment
Movement, probable
Action, does, says
- hero
- villain
Plot, five, introduction, climax

8. Freytag’s Pyramid

9. Terms Tragedy, comedy - serious, universal - happy, themes Truth
Meanings
Real
dressing

10. General Information
Italy
Tragedy
Protagonists
Antagonists
Point

11. Characters- The Montagues
Rome’s
Peace
Comic, traditional
Peacemaker, Chorus
Friend, tease

12. Characters- the Capulets
Juliet’s
Cold
14, defy
Messenger
Violent
Marry
mute

13. Neutral Characters Narrator Symbol, restore Confessor, marry, fate
never

14. About Act I, Scenes 1-3 Sonnet, foreshadowing Fate, free will Never
Sunday, haste, Montague, Capulets, Juliet
Punning
Servant, hotheaded
Foil, normative
Dignity, rusty, end
Comic, wife

15. About Act I, Scenes 1-3 Comic, seriously lovesick, never
Never, courtly, misery
Flowery, never
Oxymorons
Metaphor
Slowly
Sympathetic, ironically
Coincidence
Foils, love
Parents, thirteen
love

16. About Act I, Scenes 4-5 Immature, dreamer, fatal, comedy
Punner, dreams, dreams, end
Forty, himself, revenge
first
Hate
Sonnet
Ababcbcbdedeff
Pilgrim, kiss
Religion, purity
Agressor, not, timid
Identify, paradox, hate

17. Postcard
Directions: You are Romeo or Juliet. Write a postcard to someone about a scene in Act 2.
Example: Romeo was in my garden. I thought I was alone. I said I loved him aloud, and he appeared and spoke of love. Nurse almost caught us twice. He left at dawn to arrange a wedding.

18. About Act II Sonnet Center, not, rapport, good Foils, more
Light, moon, chastity
Metaphor
Only, famous, value
Name

19. About Act II Love Pun The more love one gives, the more one has.
God, abuse, haste
Human
Famous, forty
Foreshadowing, offstage
Not, fourteen

20. About Act III, Scenes 1 July, hotheaded Peacemaker
Matured, blocks, situational, death
Own, avenge
Not
Pun
Tybalt, killed
Fortune, decisions
Haste, impetuosity

21. About Act III, Scene 2 Mythology, Phaethon, love Internal, oxymorons
Suicide, kill, dead, too, haste

22. About Act III, Scenes 3-5 Suicide, condemned, not
Fate, blessings, good
Four
1. secretly
2. Paris
3. potion
4. before

23. Act III, Scenes 3-5 Ironic, mother, father Night, day Irony Foreshadow
Personification, apostrophe,
alliteration
Generation
evil

24. About Act IV Rapid Scheming, fate, negative Nothing, love Suicide
Haste
Fears, mad
Foreshadows
First
Dramatic
Grief, twice, Nurse,
synonymns
Humor, clown

25. About Act V Dramatic Fate Poison Death Never, Wednesday
Timing, ignorance, foils
Mature No
haste

26. Freytag’s Pyramid

27. Themes Love- Fate vs. Free Will- late, accurate
Haste and immaturity- Friday
Light/Dark-
Suicide-
Poison-