Transcript Romeo and Juliet

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(AND A LITTLE ROMEO AND
JULIET, TOO)
Mrs. Snyder
May 12, 2015
William ShakeSpeare…So What?
So what?!!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet
and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in
the English language and the world's most superior
dramatist.
His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist
of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative
poems, and several other poems.
His plays have been translated into every major living
language and are performed more often than those of any
other playwright.
Some Works You May Know
• Romeo and Juliet
• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Othello
• Macbeth
• King Lear
• A Midsummer Night’s
• The Sonnets
Dream
• All’s Well That Ends
Well
• Comedy of Errors
• Taming of the Shrew
• As You Like It
• Much Ado About
Nothing
• Two Gentlemen of
Verona
The Shakespeare Family
• At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne
Hathaway.
• Six months after the marriage, Anne gave birth to a
daughter, Susanna.
• Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost
two years later. Hamnet died of unknown causes 11
years later.
Back in the day…
Shakespeare lived during what was called the Elizabethan
Era, a time period named after Queen Elizabeth I, and
marked by a renewed interest in science, commerce,
philosophy, and the arts.
Elizabethan Era = European
Renaissance
• This time period was also known as the European
Renaissance. The rest of Europe was also experiencing
an increase in the arts and sciences.
da Vinci’s
Vitruvian Man
The Mona Lisa
theatre in ShakeSpeare’S time
• In 1599, Shakespeare and some theatre partners built
their own theatre on the banks of the River Thames in
London, which they called the Globe Theatre, named for
its circular structure.
• It was a three story wooden structure, with an open-air
courtyard in the center.
• Actors performed on a raised platform stage in the center
of the courtyard.
• The theatre could hold as many as 3,000 spectators,
many of which stood in the courtyard, also known as the
pit.
The Globe Theatre in London.
Interior view of
the Globe
Theatre.
Interior of the Globe
Theatre.
theatre in ShakeSpeare’S time
• Elizabethan theatre relied heavily on audience’s
imagination- Most theatres had no scenery, no
props, no curtains, or artificial lightning.
• Only dialogue let the audience know when and
where a scene was taking place.
• Although the sets may have been dull, there were
elegant costumes, brightly colored banners,
swords, and shields.
What about the women??
• The costumes would have also helped the audience imagine that
women were playing the female roles, which in fact were played by
young male actors.
• In Shakespeare’s day, no women belonged to acting companies, for it
was considered improper for women to appear onstage.
Impact on the English Language
Assassination. Swagger.
Bump. Lonely.
These are just a few of the almost 1700
words and phrases that Shakespeare
contributed to the English language, more
than any other writer in history!
Just to Name a Few
academe
accused
addiction
advertising
amazement
arouse
assassination
backing
bandit
bedroom
beached
besmirch
birthplace
blanket
bloodstained
barefaced
blushing
bet
bump
buzzer
caked
cater
champion
circumstantial
cold-blooded
compromise
courtship
countless
critic
dauntless
dawn
deafening
discontent
dishearten
drugged
dwindle
epileptic
equivocal
elbow
excitement
exposure
eyeball
fashionable
fixture
flawed
frugal
generous
gloomy
gossip
green-eyed
gust
hint
hobnob
hurried
impede
impartial
invulnerable
jaded
label
lackluster
laughable
lonely
lower
luggage
lustrous
madcap
majestic
marketable
metamorphize
mimic
monumental
moonbeam
mountaineer
negotiate
noiseless
obscene
obsequiously
ode
olympian
outbreak
panders
pedant
premeditated
puking
radiance
rant
remorseless
savagery
scuffle
secure
skim milk
submerge
summit
swagger
torture
tranquil
undress
unreal
varied
vaulting
worthless
zany
gnarled
grovel
The Language of Literature
Tragedy- a drama that ends in catastrophemost often death- for the main character.
The Language of Literature
Comic Relief- a humorous scene, incident,
or speech that relieves the overall emotional
intensity. By providing contrast, comic relief
helps the audience absorb the earlier events
in the plot and get ready for the ones to
come.
The Language of Literature
Allusion- a brief reference to something
outside the work that the reader or audience
is expected to know. For example, the writer
might allude to a historical or current event
or to a line from another piece of literature.
Shakespeare's plays often have allusions to
Greek and Roman mythology and the Bible.
The Language of Literature
Foil- a character whose personality or
attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of
another character in the same work. By
using a foil, the writer highlights the other
character’s traits or attitude. For example,
the kind behavior of one character will be
made clearer when it is presented in sharp
contrast to another character that is not at all
kind.
The Language of Literature
Soliloquy- a speech that a character gives when
he or she is alone on stage. Its purpose is to let
the audience know what the character is thinking.
Aside- a character’s remark, either to the
audience or to another character, that others on
the stage are not supposed to hear. This, too, is to
reveal the character’s private thoughts.
The Language of Literature
Blank Verse- a form of poetry that uses
unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, lines
that ideally have five unstressed
syllables, each followed by a stressed
syllable.
However, the pattern is not perfect;
sometimes there are breaks in the pattern.
Romeo and Juliet
• Believed written between 1591 and 1595, was first
published in 1597.
Wait, what?
Shakespeare did not invent the story of Romeo and
Juliet. He did not, in fact, even introduce the story into
the English language. A poet named Arthur Brooks first
brought the story of Romeus and Juliet to an Englishspeaking audience in a poem that was itself not original,
but rather an adaptation of adaptations that stretched
across nearly a hundred years and two languages.
Many of the details of Shakespeare’s plot are lifted
directly from Brooks’s poem, including the meeting of
Romeo and Juliet at the ball, their secret marriage,
Romeo’s fight with Tybalt, the sleeping potion, and the
timing of the lover’s eventual suicides.
the Story BeginS…
The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet is set in 14th
century Verona, Italy. It opens on a Sunday
morning with a street brawl between two feuding
families, the Capulets and the Montagues. After
order has been restored, the son of the head of the
Montague clan, Romeo, enters the scene. He
explains to his cousin Benvolio how he is
obsessed with one-sided love for Rosaline.
…and goeS…
The scene then shifts to the home of the Capulets,
where the patriarch of the clan confers with Count
Paris concerning a possible marriage between
Paris and Capulet’s daughter, Juliet. He invites
Paris to attend a celebration that he is giving that
evening.
…and goeS…
In the next scene, Juliet’s mother encourages her
to get to know Paris at the party. Romeo and his
friends soon hear of the intended party and go to it
uninvited.
There, Romeo and Juliet meet.
…and Scene.
Romeo, instantly forgetting Rosaline, falls in love
with Juliet, and she falls in love with him. The first
act closes as each later learn that the other is a
member of the rival family.
Themes of Romeo and Juliet
1. The Power of Love
2. Love as a Cause of Violence
3. The Individual Versus Society
4. Inevitability of Fate
Symbols in Romeo and Juliet
Poison
2. Thumb-biting
3. Queen Mab
1.
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