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Romeo & Juliet

OCR GCSE Literature Unit A1661: literary Heritage Linked Texts. Romeo & Juliet . LO: to consider a Shakespearian audiences’ point if view. Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s London. STARTER TASK: watch the short clip and then fill in the blanks using the words from the table. .

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Romeo & Juliet

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  1. OCR GCSE Literature Unit A1661:literary Heritage Linked Texts Romeo & Juliet LO: to consider a Shakespearian audiences’ point if view

  2. Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s London.STARTER TASK: watch the short clip and then fill in the blanks using the words from the table.

  3. Shakespeare’sLondon I prithee gentle kinsfolk, ye must make note of the rotten audience of my time. Look well to the pages that follow...

  4. Shakespeare arrived in London in 1588. At that time, places like Euston and Paddington were tiny villages on the outskirts of England’s capital city. London itself covered just one square mile of land! Now... Then...

  5. Life in London was just like it is in any capital city today – hectic! People got around on foot or horseback – they crossed the river by boat as there was only one bridge.

  6. London Bridge was more than a convenient crossing in Shakespeare's time. It was a residential street and shopping centre too.

  7. The bridge's stone structure supported houses and shops built of timber and brick. • A gate at the south end reminded Shakespeare and his fellow Londoners that Elizabethan justice could be harsh. The heads of executed criminals were displayed here.

  8. People in London were used to such violent sights. On a Law Day they might watch as many as 30 public executions.

  9. A good executioner could hang, draw and quarter a victim, pulling out the condemned person’s intestines and holding them up to their dying face . . .

  10. Sometimes, the people would choose to visit St. Mary’s of Bethlehem, or ‘Bedlam’ – the local lunatic asylum.

  11. They would then pay a penny for a sharp stick which could be used to poke the ‘lunatics’, provoking these poor people to ‘dance’!

  12. Southwark was just beyond the range of London's local law-makers. It was the haunt of the Elizabethan pleasure-seekers. Among their destinations were the Hope, Rose, Swan and Globe theatres. • Public alehouses, bawdy houses, and bear-baiting pits also featured here. Establishments like these irritated the authorities in Shakespeare's time, and were the focus for many an unruly crowd.

  13. Arranging contests between animals was a common form of recreation. It was thought particularly suitable entertainment for royalty! A bear or bull was tied to a stake and attacked by one or more dogs. It was sometimes made more ferocious by having pepper blown up its nostrils. The bear took vicious revenge on the on-lookers if it managed to pull free - as sometimes happened!

  14. This picture shows what the Elizabethan theatres were like inside. Only a few members of the audience sat under cover. Most stood up in the open air.

  15. Shakespeare’sLondon So... What types of people was I writing for?

  16. Shakespeare’sLondon Who do I write for today?

  17. Why has Shakespeare been changed so dramatically in these films? Taming of the Shrew Henry IV, Part V Romeo & Juliet Twelfth Night Othello The Tempest Hamlet

  18. Complete the table in pairs.

  19. OCR GCSE Literature Unit A1661:literary Heritage Linked Texts Romeo & Juliet LO: to consider a Shakespearian audiences’ point if view

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