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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet. Mr. McClellan’s Sixth-Grade Shakespeare for The Wednesday Wars Team 6-1. Major Roles. Romeo Juliet Friar Lawrence Mercutio Tybalt. Romeo. A son of Montague Sixteen years old Handsome, intelligent, and sensitive.

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Romeo and Juliet

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  1. Romeo and Juliet Mr. McClellan’s Sixth-Grade Shakespeare for The Wednesday Wars Team 6-1

  2. Major Roles • Romeo • Juliet • Friar Lawrence • Mercutio • Tybalt

  3. Romeo • A son of Montague • Sixteen years old • Handsome, intelligent, and sensitive http://qrst.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/leonard_whiting1.jpg

  4. Juliet • A daughter of Capulet • Thirteen years old • A naïve child • Shows amazing courage throughout the play http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nitrovideo.com/moviedb/romeo_and_juliet/images/romeo_and_juliet03_olivia_hussey.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nitrovideo.com/moviedb/romeo_and_juliet/Romeo_and_Juliet.html&usg=__iflnBFHXwSx45pg_MLuUhJ9hrvY=&h=288&w=480&sz=52&hl=en&start=17&itbs=1&tbnid=TOF0L8_vwPk22M:&tbnh=77&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djuliet%2Bshakespeare%2Bolivia%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1

  5. Friar Lawrence • A Franciscan friar • Kind, civic-minded, and moderate • Secretly marries Romeo and Juliet • Always ready with a plan http://2009.playingshakespeare.org/files/images/Romeo&Juliet-271%20cropped.profile.jpg

  6. Mercutio • Romeo’s best friend • Kinsman to the Prince • Funny, witty, satirical, and hotheaded

  7. Tybalt • A Capulet and Juliet’s cousin • Vain and fashionable • Aggressive and violent when offended http://www.michaelyork.net/images/Micheal-York-in-Romeo-n-Juliet.jpg

  8. The Plot • In the streets of Verona another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. • Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. • Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin and confides that he is in love with Rosaline, a woman who does not return his affections. • Benvolio counsels him to forget this woman and find another, more beautiful one, but Romeo remains despondent.

  9. The Plot • Meanwhile, Capulet invites Paris, kinsman of the Prince, to a feast, hoping that Paris will begin to win Juliet’s heart. • Romeo and Benvolio encounter the Capulet servant bearing the list of invitations. Benvolio suggests that they attend, since that will allow Romeo to compare his beloved to other beautiful women of Verona. • In Capulet’s household, young Juliet talks with her mother, Lady Capulet, and her nurse about the possibility of marrying Paris. Juliet has not yet considered marriage, but agrees to look at Paris during the feast to see if she thinks she could fall in love with him.

  10. The Plot • A melancholy Romeo follows Benvolio and their witty friend Mercutio to Capulet’s house. • Once inside, Romeo sees Juliet from a distance and instantly falls in love with her; he forgets about Rosaline completely. • Soon, Romeo speaks to Juliet, and the two experience a profound attraction. They kiss, not even knowing each other’s names. When he finds out from Juliet’s nurse that she is the daughter of Capulet—his family’s enemy—he becomes distraught. When Juliet learns that the young man she has just kissed is the son of Montague, she grows equally upset. • As Mercutio and Benvolio leave the Capulet estate, Romeo leaps over the orchard wall into the garden, unable to leave Juliet behind. From his hiding place, he sees Juliet in a window above the orchard and hears her speak his name. He calls out to her, and they exchange vows of love.

  11. The Plot • Friar Lawrence agrees to marry the young lovers in secret since he sees in their love the possibility of ending the age-old feud between Capulet and Montague. The following day, Romeo and Juliet meet at Friar Lawrence’s cell and are married. • The next day, Benvolio and Mercutio encounter Tybalt—Juliet’s cousin—who, still enraged that Romeo attended Capulet’s feast, has challenged Romeo to a duel. Romeo begs not to fight. • Mercutio says that he will fight Tybalt himself. The two begin to duel. Romeo tries to stop them. Tybalt stabs and kills Mercutio. • Romeo, in a rage, kills Tybalt. Romeo flees from the scene. Soon after, the Prince declares him forever banished from Verona for his crime.

  12. The Plot • Juliet learns that her father intends for her to marry Paris in just three days. • Juliet hurries to Friar Lawrence. He concocts a plan to reunite Juliet with Romeo in Mantua. The night before her wedding to Paris, Juliet must drink a potion that will make her appear to be dead. After she is laid to rest in the family’s crypt, the Friar and Romeo will secretly retrieve her, and she will be free to live with Romeo, away from their parents’ feuding. • Juliet returns home to discover she is to be married tomorrow. That night, Juliet drinks the potion and is discovered apparently dead the next morning. The Capulets grieve, and Juliet is entombed, but Friar Lawrence’s message explaining the plan to Romeo never reaches Mantua. Romeo hears only that Juliet is dead.

  13. The Plot • Romeo buys a vial of poison and speeds back to Verona. • He enters the tomb, sees Juliet’s inanimate body, drinks the poison, and dies by her side. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters and realizes that Romeo has killed himself. At the same time, Juliet awakes. • Juliet sees her beloved Romeo and realizes he has killed himself with poison. She buries his dagger in her chest, falling dead upon his body. • The guards arrive, followed closely by the Prince, the Capulets, and Montague. Seeing their children’s bodies, Capulet and Montague agree to end their long-standing feud.

  14. Famous Quotes • “A pair of star-crossed lovers.” (Prologue) • “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (Act II, scene ii) • “O Romeo, Romeo,wherefore art thou Romeo?”(Act II, scene ii) • “What 's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.” (Act II, scene ii) • “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” (Act II, scene ii) • “A plague o' both your houses!” (Act III, scene i) • “Never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (Act V, scene iii)

  15. And the women you will wow! http://www.horroria.com/i/nstills/16/11/1611/1611-42215.jpg

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