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feuds

2. rivalries & feuds
With one partner, you have five minutes to think of as many famous feuds / rivalries as you can.

3. rivalries & feuds Republicans vs. Democrats Yankees vs. Red Sox
Mac vs. PC
West Coast vs. East Coast Rappers
David Letterman vs. Jay Leno
Hatfields vs. McCoys

4. r
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prologue

5. meter and rhyme scheme?
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.

6. meter and rhyme scheme ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ /
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. A B
(slant)

7. shakespearean sonnet A B C D E F G
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-crossed lovers take their LIFE;
Whose misadventured piteous OVERTHROWS
Doth with their death bury their parents’ STRIFE.
The fearful passage of their death-marked LOVE
And the continuance of their parents’ RAGE,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could REMOVE
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our STAGE;
The which, if you with patient ears ATTEND,
What hear shall miss, our toil shall strive to MEND.

8. translate
the
prologue
(directions)

9. translate 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.

10. translate the prologue
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

11. translate the prologue
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

12. translate the prologue
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What hear shall miss, our toil shall strive to end.

13. translate the prologue
In the beautiful city of Verona, the setting of our story,
new fighting erupts from a long-lasting feud between
two respected families,
and the hands of citizens become guilty with blood.
From the households of two enemy families,
two ill-fated young lovers end their lives.
Their sad, hopeless adventures
end in death, which ends their parents’ fighting.
For the next two hours,
you will watch the story of their ill-fated love
and their parents’ angry feud,
which would never have ended if the lovers didn’t die.
Listen now with patient ears;
we’re going to tell you the story.