1. Romeo and Juliet
Test Review

2. Two types of Elizabethan Plays
Comedy -
a play that begins with trouble and ends in peace.
Tragedy -
a play that begins in calm and ends in violence; usually ends with the death of one or more of the main characters.
Two types of Elizabethan Plays

3. The people who stood to watch the plays were called groundlings .

4. Built in
1598
Globe Theatre

5. Globe Theatre Destroyed by fire in 1613.
It was set on fire by a spark from a cannon during the play Henry VIII.
Globe Theatre

6. William Shakespeare
He wrote Romeo and Juliet in 1594.
Shakespeare

7. Shakespeare’s Acting Group
The King’s Men
Shakespeare’s Acting Group

8. Blank Verse Romeo and Juliet is written in Blank Verse –
a form of poetry written in unrhyming lines that sound similar to everyday speech.
Blank Verse

9. There were no female actors because it was considered improper for women to appear on stage.

10. Word Master Assassination Bump Lonely He has been called a
“word musician.”
Assassination
Bump
Lonely
Word Master

11. The central character of a drama is known as the protagonist.

12. The antagonist is the force working against the protagonist.

13. A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character is called a foil.
Foil

14. A speech given by a character alone on stage is called a soliloquy.

15. An aside is a character’s remark that others on stage do not hear.

16. A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood is known as comic relief.

17. The term used to describe a situation in a play in which the audience knows more than the character is called dramatic irony.
Dramatic Irony

18. An allusion is a reference within a work to something that the audience is expected to know.

19. Shakespeare’s plays have allusions to Greek mythology, Roman Mythology and the Bible.

20. A joke that results from multiple word meanings is called a pun.

21. Vocabulary/Expressions
Asunder: apart
Fury: anger; rage; inflamed
Ado: gathering
Beshrew: curse
Fancy Free: without any ties or commitments
Foul Play: unfair behavior; violent conduct
In Stitches: laughing a lot
Mum’s the Word: keep quiet, say nothing
Stony-hearted: cruel and unfeeling
Thou: you
Hath: have
Vocabulary/Expressions

22. STUDY!
Romeo and Juliet