Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet

• Forbidden Love and Family Loyalty

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Who is William Shakespeare?
The Globe Theater
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Who is William Shakespeare?

• Born in 1564 to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare
• 1582 Married to Anne
• 1583 Birth of Daughter Susanna
• 1585 Birth of twins Judith and Hamnet
• 1587-1592 Established in London as
  actor/playwright first work Comedy of Errors

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Who is William Shakespeare?

• 1593 Begins writing sonnets (until 1597-ish)
• 1594-1596 Some more famous plays Romeo and
  Juliet and Midsummer Nights Dream
• 1597-1608 Best known plays including the rest of
  the tragedies
• 1599 The Globe Theatre built
• 1609 Publication of the Sonnets
• April 23, 1616 Shakespeare dies

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His Works

• Poetry
• The Sonnets
• The Rape of Lucrece
• Plays
• Tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
• Comedies Much Ado About Nothing
• Histories Richard III, Henry V

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The Time Period

• Elizabethan Era
• The Renaissance
• Actors were men only
• Men even played female
• roles!
• Plays were one of the main source of
  entertainment

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Three Classifications of Shakespearean Drama

• COMEDY
• HISTORY
• TRAGEDY

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Romeo and Juliet is a

• Tragedy

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TRAGIC HERO

• Qualities of a Tragic Hero
• Possesses high importance or rank
• Exhibits extraordinary talents
• Displays a tragic flawan error in judgment or
  defect in characterthat leads to downfall
• Faces downfall with courage and dignity

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Act I Vocabulary Words

• adversary opponent enemy
• boisterous noisily jolly or rowdy
• nuptial having to do with marriage or a
  marriage ceremony
• augmenting adding to
• warrant swear
• begot - born

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Shakespearian WordsAct I

• dog a man of low standing in society, no one
  wants anything to do with him
• maidenhead - virginity
• bite my thumb the ultimate insult (like giving
  someone the finger)
• shrift - confession
• coz - nephew

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BLANK VERSE

• Written like poetry
• But tells a story
• More free-flowing rules
• doesnt have a rhyme scheme or set number of
  lines, etc.
• Iambic Pentameter

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Iambic Pentameter

• Lines have a rhythm to them
• 10 syllables
• Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
• He JESTS at SCARS that NEV er FELT a WOUND
• But SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow
  BREAKS?

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SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE

• Soliloquy - Long speech given by a character
  while alone on stage to reveal his or her private
  thoughts or intentions
• Aside - Characters quiet remark to the audience
  or another character that no one else on stage is
  supposed to hear

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DRAMATIC IRONY

• Ironycontrast between appearance and reality
• Dramatic Ironythe audience or reader knows
  something the character(s) does not know

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Act II Vocabulary

• 1. cunning - skillful, sly, clever
• 2. vile - repulsive, wicked, disgusting
• 3. predominant - having superior strength,
  influence, or authority
• 4. unwieldy - hard to manage because of size or
  weight
• 5. bounty - generosity, something given
  generously
• 6. substantial - existing, real, not imaginary
• 7. imagery - word pictures, words that paint a
  picture

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Conflict

• External
• Man vs. Man   Example
• Man vs. Nature    Example
• Man vs. Society   Example
• Internal
• Man vs. himself   Example

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Figurative Language

• Simile comparison using like or as
• Her face is like a summers day
• Metaphor comparison by saying one thing is
  another finding similarities in two seemingly
  unalike things
• I am the East, and Juliet is the West
•  

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Figurative Language

• Pun play on words
• "Vandals destroyed many road signs. They really
  pulled out all the stops."
• Alliteration - group of words that begin with the
  same letter or sound
• desire doth in his deathbed lie

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Foreshadowing

• A hint about what is to come in literature or
  what the outcome of the conflict will be

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Foil

• A character with qualities that are in sharp
  contrast to another character, thus emphasizing
  the qualities of each
• How is Mercutio a foil to Romeo?

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Do Now

• Assume that you write an advice column for a
  newspaper or magazine. A modern day Romeo (or
  Juliet) writes to you asking for advice. He or
  she explains what happened at the party and also
  mentions the family feud.
• Write what his or her letter says.
• Write your response

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Journal Entry

• Write about a time when you've done something
  wrong
• and it's affected others around you.
• What did you do?
• How did it affect others?
• What consequences did you face?
• Did you resolve it?