1. The Globe Theatre

2. The Elizabethan stage was in the center of London.
It was a three-story, open-air amphitheatre approximately 100 feet in diameter that could house up to 3,000 spectators

3. Introduction to the Five Act Play
Act 1 -- Exposition. Capulet wants his daughter Juliet to marry Paris and plans a party for the night. Romeo is in love with Rosaline and hopes to see her at the party.
Act 2 – Rising Action. Romeo and Juliet meet. Balcony scene, Romeo learns Juliet loves him.
Act 3 -- The Climax. Romeo’s friend Mercutio is killed by Tybalt (a Capulet). Romeo ends up killing Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin and he is banished.
Act 4 -- Falling Action. Juliet drinks a potion and fakes her own death
Act 5 -- Resolution. Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and so he kills himself. Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead, and she kills herself.

4. Language
Thou = You When “you” is the subject of the sentence EXAMPLE: O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Thy = Your Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with a consonant/consonant sound (like the article, “a”). EXAMPLE: Deny thy father and refuse thy name
Thee =You When “you” is the object of the sentence. EXAMPLE: “If they do see thee they will murder thee.”
Thine = Your Possessive form of you. EXAMPLE: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords.

5. Vocabulary Terms (Page 986)
Tragedy- is a drama that ends in catastrophe—most often death—for the main character and often for several other important characters as well.
Tragic Hero- usually someone who is nobly born and who may have great influence in his or her society. The character also has one or more fatal character flaws that leads to their downfall.

6. Vocab Terms Continued
Comic Relief- A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity.
Allusion- a brief reference, within a work, to something outside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know.

7. Sonnet 130
NOTES: Her lips will never be as red as coral, her breath does not compare to perfume, music sounds much better than her voice
And yet I think my love as rare, as any woman who has been misrepresented by ridiculous comparisons.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:    And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare    As any she belied with false compare. A B A B C D C D E F E F G G

8. The Prologue
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;     Whole 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.