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?

Two Households, two beginnings Play Play https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=LIBWT biJVVk https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=ofutw B54Md0 Movie 1996 Movie 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beV56hp4T3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5X4LjrEzIM

Two Households, two beginnings Play Which was the best? Why? Which one conveyed the most meaning/ helped you understand? Movies One had all the action stop, and then the chorus speak the prologue The other had an interactive prologue- all the characters shared speaking the lines One had a TV announcer presenting the prologue 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 dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Two families, equal in rank/status In fair Verona(Italy) is where this play takes place An old grudge is starting to causing problems now That is bringing about a lot of blood-shed, or death

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From the two bodies of these enemies Were born a pair of star- crossed lovers, who commit suicide Their untimely love causes their death However, in their death they end the old grudge of the past 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 story of their ill-fated love And the hatred between their families, Which the children ultimately destroyed, Is now what you will be witnessing on this stage for 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