1. Agenda: 4/29/2019 Journal #36: Romeo and Juliet Family Tree Scorecards
Begin Act 1 Scene 1

2. Getting to know your book
Folgers is the ONLY choice when it comes to Shakespeare texts
Look through your book and notice the resources
Page 90/91

4. Verona, Italy

5. Narrative Origins: What does all this mean?
Shakespeare wrote his Romeo and Juliet sometime between 1591 and Tragic Romances as a genre are somewhat archetypal – many cultures tell tales of doomed love.
Stories like Romeo and Juliet had been around for hundreds of years before that as well. All the way back to the third century (1200+ years before Shakespeare’s birth).
Arthur Brooks translation of the Italian Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (translation occurred in 1562).
The earliest known version of the Romeo and Juliet tale very similar to Shakespeare's play is the story of Mariotto and Gianozza by Masuccio Salernitano, in the 33rd novel of his Il Novellino published in 1476.
The Ephesiaca of Xenophon of Ephesus, written in the third century, also contains several similarities to the play, including the separation of the lovers, and a potion that induces a deathlike sleep.
What does all this mean?

6. China’s Romeo and Juliet

7. China’s Romeo and Juliet
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8. Early Versions of R&J
Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in The text of the first quarto version was of poor quality and very short.

9. Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

10. Act 1 scene 1
With your table group go through and record the characters who appear on stage in your R+J scorecard. Then add Romeo who appears in What major character is missing?

11. With a partner: read lines 1.1.1-44
What is going on?
What are they talking about?

12. Puns in 1.1
Puns are jokes using words that sound the same but have different meanings.
In Sampson and Gregory make many puns (mostly sexual).
Example: Sampson: ‘we be in choler, we’ll draw’ (3) means:
being angry, we’ll draw our swords. Gregory: ‘draw your neck out of collar’ (4) turns the meaning to:
pull your head out of the hangman’s noose.
Choler = anger and Collar = noose

13. Puns in 1.1
Puns are jokes using words that sound the same but have different meanings. In Sampson and Gregory make many puns (mostly sexual). With your partner find 2 (sexual?) puns and be able to explain. Look for: stand, thrust, maidenheads, tool, and weapon

14. Puns in 1.1
SAMPSON ’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids, and cut off their heads. GREGORY The heads of the maids? SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt. GREGORY They must take it in sense that feel it. SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. GREGORY ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues. SAMPSON My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. Why would Shakespeare choose to start the play in this way?

15. Puns in 1.1
SAMPSON ’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids, and cut off their heads. GREGORY The heads of the maids? SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt. GREGORY They must take it in sense that feel it. SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. GREGORY ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues. SAMPSON My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. Why would Shakespeare choose to start the play in this way?

17. Act 1 Scene 1 Part I: 1.1.1-105 Sampson 35 Gregory 24 Abram 5
Benvolio 4
Tybalt 5
Citizens 2
Capulet 3
Lady Capulet 2
Montague 1
Lady Montague 1
Prince 23

18. What does the Prince tell the Capulets and Montagues
What does the Prince tell the Capulets and Montagues? What are the 4 most important lines of this dialogue?

19. We’ll be watching 2 film versions of Romeo and Juliet.
Zeffirelli [1968] : (0:00-7:38) What do you notice about this version of Romeo and Juliet?
Luhrmann [1996] Prologue (0:00-9:42) What do you notice about this version of Romeo and Juliet?

20. Act 1 Scene 1 Part II: 1.1.106-247 (page 17) Montague 27
Lady Montague 2
Benvolio 47
Romeo 65

21. What is Benvolio saying?
What time was it? Who else was there? How did he feel?

22. Identify the Antithesis and Oxymorons in Romeo’s speech (pg. 21).

23. What is Romeo’s problem?

24. Why would Shakespeare immediately start a play about forbidden love with Capulet and Montague servants fighting? Why not start with actual family members?
What can we tell about the Prince based off his language? What is his speech like compared to the servants at the beginning of the scene?
What is Romeo’s problem at the end of 1.1? Who is he in love with? What is Benvolio’s advice? What would you tell a friend that had a crush on someone who didn’t like them back?
How is Romeo characterized? How is Benvolio characterized? How is Tybalt characterized?

25. Why would Shakespeare immediately start a play about forbidden love with Capulet and Montague servants fighting?
Why not start with actual family members?