The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare wrote: Comedies Tragedies Histories Romances
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Written between 1594 and 1596. Based on a basic story known to many people of the time. Plays then are like movies or TV today.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Lurhmann (1996) version uses Shakespeare’s original language, but sets its scene in modern times.
![The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Zeffirelli (1968) maintains both The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Zeffirelli (1968) maintains both](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/571f96bc55d9d8de540a7d11e9ca281f/image-6.jpg)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Zeffirelli (1968) maintains both Shakespeare’s original language as well as an authentic setting.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare An overview: The Setting The Plot The Characters
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Setting: Verona, Italy (Shakespeare lived and worked in London, ENGLAND) Why ITALY?
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Setting: Verona, Italy Set in the late 1400 s to early 1500 s, though the date is never really stated. The ENTIRE plot of the play takes place less than a week of time.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Plot Basics: Two families (Capulet and Montague) have a long standing feud. As fate has it, the Capulet daughter (Juliet) and the Montague son (Romeo) meet at a party and fall immediately in love.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Knowing they cannot be together, they secretly make plans to marry. Juliet, however, is already being married off to a guy named Paris. People start to kill each other, and Romeo ends up kicked out of Verona.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare With Romeo banished, the crazy kids still try to find a way to get together. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong, and the audience gets their tragedy. . .
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Lord and Lady Capulet (parents of Juliet) • • • Anxious to get their daughter married worthy gentleman (named Paris) In a long standing feud with the Montague A distinct parenting style…
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Juliet Capulet • • • 13 years old To be wed to Paris any day… Has never been in love before
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: The Nurse • • • Has raised Juliet Has a dirty sense of humor, if you read carefully… Plays a crucial role in Juliet’s happiness
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Tybalt Capulet • Juliet’s older cousin • A chest-thumper • A “saucy princox” if there ever was one (saucy = disrespectful; princox = cocky boy)
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Lord and Lady Montague • • • Parents of Romeo Are in the feud with the Capulets Not major players in the drama
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Romeo Montague • • • A boy of 16 or 17, sometimes interpreted as old as late 20 s or older An emotional romantic Falls easily in and out of love
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: The Friar Lawrence (spelling varies) • • • The local religious leader Is tired of the Feud Plays a key role in the drama
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Benvolio Montague • • • Romeo’s cousin Level-headed and honest Cares for Romeo like his own brother
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: Mercutio • Romeo’s best friend, related to Prince • His name is based on the word “mercury” or “mercurial” which means volatile • An “actor’s favorite” • Watch out for his jokes…
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The CHARACTERS: County Paris • The “suitor” who is to marry Juliet Prince Escalus • The Prince of Verona Apothecary • The local “pharmacist” or chemist
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What is Tragedy? In Shakespeare, tragedy tends to follow five stages (five acts): 1. Basic Situation: establishment of character and conflict. “Inciting Incident. ” 2. Rising Action: complications develop, culminating with a “point of no return” at which point some tragedy is all but guaranteed) 3. Climax: different than in stories; tragic climax marks the beginning of the tragic collapse 4. Falling Action: the chain of tragic events befalls the protagonist, gaining momentum and deepening the tragedy 5. Catastrophe: the fall to ruin is complete
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The FORM (1): The whole play is written as a poem, in a form which is called “iambic pentameter. ” • An iamb is a pair of unstressed and stressed syllables, like in the word confused (con FUSED). • Meter is a pattern of repeating “rhythm” that is present in poetry. • Penta- means “ 5. ”
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The FORM: Iambic pentameter= • A line of FIVE IAMBS in a row, meaning each line of verse has 10 syllables: But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
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The FORM (2): Inverted Syntax Grammar was often inverted in order to make the language fit the rhythm: He found the dagger in the dark closet. . . . becomes… In closet dark did he the dagger find.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The FORM: When the lines rhyme, Shakespeare is trying to get the audience’s attention: • A major point has just been stated • A character is leaving the scene When the lines do not rhyme, the poetry is called BLANK VERSE.
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The Language: Contractions and Truncations to match the rhythm of the line or to reflect speech patterns: Contractions: apostrophe = missing letter O’er (over) Can’t (cannot) Truncations: words shortened Ope your eyes
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The Language: Hither, thither, whither Come hither! (hither = here) Go thither! (thither = there) To whither did she go? (whither = where) **ither = **ere
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The Language: It’s what you do… Didst = did Doth = do Doest = does Hath = has **th **st **est
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The Language: Pronouns Thou (you, in the subject of the sentence) Thou art a fool! …you are a fool Thee (you, as an object) I love thee. …I love you Thine, thy (your) In thy soul; in thine eyes My heart is thine
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