Prologue Todays Goals Focus Questions Examine the prologue

Prologue

Today’s Goals Focus Questions • Examine the prologue through multi-media and multiple presentations • Analyze and translate RJ Prologue • How do different mediums portray the same information or story, and what is lost or added in each interpretation? • What is happening in the prologue?

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Two Households, two beginnings Play 1. One had all the action stop, and then the chorus speak the prologue 2. The other had an interactive prologue- all the characters shared speaking the lines Which was the best? Why? Which one conveyed the most meaning/ helped you understand? Why? Movies 1. One had a TV announcer presenting the prologue 2. One changed the prologue but still kept the tension

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Understanding Shakespeare Two households, both alike in Two families, equal in dignity, rank/status In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, In fair Verona(Italy) is where this play takes place An old grudge is starting to From ancient grudge break to causing problems now new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil That is bringing about a lot of blood-shed, or death hands unclean.

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From forth the fatal loins of From the two bodies of these enemies these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers Were born a pair of startake their life; crossed lovers, who commit suicide Whose misadventured Their untimely love causes piteous overthrows their death However, in their death Do with their death bury they end the old grudge of their parents' strife. the past

The fearful passage of their The story of their ill-fated death-mark'd love, love And the continuance of their parents' rage, And the hatred between their families, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Which the children ultimately destroyed, Is now what you will be Is now the two hours' witnessing on this stage for traffic of our stage; this play

The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend And if you are patient and listen To the tale that is being told, our labor in listening will strive to mend these families