1. Forbidden Love and Family Loyalty
Romeo and Juliet
Forbidden Love and Family Loyalty

2. Who is William Shakespeare?
The Globe Theater

3. Who is William Shakespeare?
Born in 1564 to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare
1582: Married to Anne (he was 18)
1583: Birth of Daughter Susanna
1585: Birth of twins: Judith and Hamnet
: Established in London as actor/playwright; first work Comedy of Errors

4. Who is William Shakespeare?
1593: Begins writing sonnets (until 1597-ish)
: Some more famous plays Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream
: Best known plays including the rest of the tragedies
1599: The Globe Theatre built
1609: Publication of the Sonnets
April 23, 1616: Shakespeare dies

5. His Works Poetry Plays The Sonnets The Rape of Lucrece
Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing
Histories: Richard III, Henry V

6. The Time Period Elizabethan Era The Renaissance Actors were men only
Men even played female
roles!
Plays were one of the main source of entertainment

7. Three Classifications of Shakespearean Drama:
COMEDY
HISTORY
TRAGEDY

8. Romeo and Juliet is a…
Tragedy

9. TRAGIC HERO Qualities of a Tragic Hero:
Possesses high importance or rank
Exhibits extraordinary talents
Displays a tragic flaw—an error in judgment or defect in character—that leads to downfall
Faces downfall with courage and dignity

10. BLANK VERSE Written like poetry But tells a story
More free-flowing rules
doesn’t have a rhyme scheme or set number of lines, etc.
Iambic Pentameter

11. Iambic Pentameter Lines have a rhythm to them 10 syllables
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
He JESTS at SCARS that NEV er FELT a WOUND
But SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow BREAKS?

12. SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE
Soliloquy - Long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions
Aside - Character’s quiet remark to the audience or another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear

13. DRAMATIC IRONY Irony—contrast between appearance and reality
Dramatic Irony—the audience or reader knows something the character(s) does not know

14. Conflict External Internal Man vs. Man Example:
Man vs. Nature    Example:
Man vs. Society   Example:
Internal
Man vs. himself   Example:

15. Figurative Language Simile – comparison using “like” or “as”
Her face is like a summer’s day…
Metaphor – comparison by saying one thing is another; finding similarities in two seemingly unalike things
“I am the East, and Juliet is the West…”

16. Figurative Language
Pun – play on words
"Vandals destroyed many road signs. They really pulled out all the stops."
Alliteration - group of words that begin with the same letter or sound
desire doth in his deathbed lie

17. Foreshadowing
A hint about what is to come in literature or what the outcome of the conflict will be

18. Foil
A character with qualities that are in sharp contrast to another character, thus emphasizing the qualities of each
How is Mercutio a foil to Romeo?

19. A Star-crossed Romance
Romeo and Juliet
A Star-crossed Romance

20. A Brief Introduction
Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare in 1594 or 1595.
Romeo and Juliet was an experimental stage piece, featuring several radical departures from long-standing conventions.
The themes of the play include the antithesis between love and hate, the use of a light/dark polarity, the use of time, and the use of Fate in the dreams, omens and forebodings that foreshadow the play’s tragic conclusion.

21. Romeo and Juliet

22. Two households…

23. Both alike in dignity…

24. In fair Verona,
where we lay our scene…

25. From ancient grudge
break to new mutiny…

26. Where civil blood
makes civil hands
unclean.

27. From forth the fatal
loins of these two foes,

28. A pair of star-cross’d
lovers take their life.

29. Facts
Written by William Shakespeare in about 1591 Based on Arthur Brooke's The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet

30. Montagues

31. The Montagues Lord and Lady Montague – Romeo’s parents Romeo Montague
Balthasar and Abram – servants to the Montagues
Mercutio – Friend of Romeo and relative of the Prince

32. Capulets

33. The Capulets
Lord and Lady Capulet – Juliets parents Juliet Capulet Nurse – Juliets attendant Tybalt – cousin to Juliet Sampson and Gregory – servants to the Capulets

34. Others

35. A Very Brief Plot Summary
Act I – Shakespeare establishes an on-going feud between two families, the Montagues and Capulets.
Juliet’s father decides that even though Juliet is only 13 it is time to find her a husband.
Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet ( A Capulet) meet and fall in love.

36. Act II – One of the Capulets challenges Romeo to a duel
Act II – One of the Capulets challenges Romeo to a duel. Romeo’s friends fear for his safety.
Friar Laurence conspires with Romeo to arrange a secret marriage.
By the end of Act II, Romeo and Juliet are married.

37. Act III – The duel between Romeo and Tybalt takes place after all, and Romeo kills Tybalt.
The Prince spares Romeo’s life, but banishes him from Verona.
Juliet’s father announces that she shall wed Paris in 3 days.
Juliet makes plans to seek the advice of Friar Laurence where unbeknownst to her Romeo is hiding.

38. Act IV -- Juliet threatens to commit suicide rather than marry Paris.
Friar Laurence convinces her to fake her death in order to be with Romeo.
Juliet follows the Friar’s plan, and her corpselike body is discovered by her nurse.

39. Act V – Romeo receives word that Juliet is dead.
He buys a fast-acting poison and travels to Juliet’s tomb so that he may die beside her.
Paris is also at the tomb. He and Romeo fight, and Paris is killed.
Romeo drinks the poison. Juliet awakens and stabs herself to death with Romeo’s dagger.
The feuding families end their feud and erect golden statues to the lovers.