1. Be prepared to share your answers.
DO NOW
Using complete sentences, please answer the “Essential Questions” on your Act I Literary Roadmap.
Be prepared to share your answers.

2. Drama. Drama. Drama. Drama is tension.
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Drama. Drama. Drama.
Drama is tension.
In theater, tension means the audience is expecting something to happen between the characters
Will they shoot each other?
Will they finally confess their undying love for one another?

3. Shakespeare Genres Shakespearean theater can be broken into 3 genres:
Comedies
Tragedies
Histories
“Romeo and Juliet”
is a tragedy.

4. Tragedies A tragedy is a story about serious and
important actions that end unhappily.
Tragedies usually end
with the deaths of the
main characters.

5. 5-Act Structure All of Shakespeare’s plays have a 5 act structure.
An act is like a chapter in a story.
Shakespeare’s tragedy plot structure:
Act I: Exposition
Act II: Rising Action
Act III: Crisis or turning point
Act IV: Falling Action
Act V: Climax and resolution

6. Stage Directions
Stage Directions are the directors intended movement of the actors in the play.
Help the reader visualize actions being performed.
Tell the actor where to stand, how to move and the way to say their lines.

7. Act I: Scene i Roles: Sampson Gregory Abram Balthasar Benvolio Tybalt
Officer
Capulet
Lady Capulet
Montague
Lady Montague
Prince
Romeo

8. Act I: Scene ii
Roles:
Paris
Servant
Benvolio
Romeo

9. Act I: Scene iii
Roles:
Lady Capulet
Nurse
Juliet
Servingman

10. Literary Road Map SECTION 3
Getting’ it straight: Knowledge and Comprehension
Please answer questions #1-8
Write in complete sentences!