1. Drama 2 Date: Objectives Warm –up
Prepare for the re-reading of Romeo and Juliet.
Try and get to know Shakespeare better – make him more human.
Outline what we are looking for during this reading (Much more detail)
Warm –up
Each of you has a piece of paper with a different Shakespeare fact. Each of these are numbered. When you say your fact, pick a number. That person says theirs next.

2. Context is king – note the following
Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker and left school around the age of fourteen.
He based Romeo and Juliet on the well known poems and stories of his day.
He wanted to write a story about love when all the odds are stacked against it.

3. Shakespearian dictionary task - pairs
Shakespeare used seventeenth century English and made up words too. Your task today is twofold. In pairs, translate the speech by Juliet into modern day English. Then in the same pairs, write a speech from modern English into Old (Shakespearian) English, based on ONE of the scenarios given.
Important note: This isn’t math or science – no exact right answer. Try and write what you think the translation is or what is trying to be expressed
Example: ‘Listen up, a cute girls here’.
‘Attend my words, a quite quaint wench hath just arrived’.

4. Shakespearian dictionary task - pairs
Romeo and Juliet
Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, First line: you know the darkness is on my face
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek (???? What’s that mean)
For that which thou hast heard me speak to-nigh you know my face is dark/shaded
Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny you know you can’t see my face
What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! you know it’s night
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' It’s pitch black fool (maybe not)
And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then say, Jove* laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

5. Shakespearian dictionary task - pairs
Romeo and Juliet Scenarios for your speech
Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, A. You want to be the captain or
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek head of a team.
For that which thou hast heard me speak to-nigh
Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny B. Someone is better at
What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! something than you and you
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' want rid of them.
And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries C. A friend/girlfriend wants you to
Then say, Jove* laughs. O gentle Romeo, do something stupid but you
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: don’t know what to do.
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

6. Reflection
I think...
I knew...
I now know...
I want to know...