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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet. Background Notes. Introduction. Theme. Tragic young love Star-crossed lovers. 1595. The year the play was written. Shakespeare “borrowed” from a lot of sources. Tragedical History of Romeo and Juliet Arthur Brooke Brook borrowed the idea from an old Italian poem.

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Romeo and Juliet

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  1. Romeo and Juliet Background Notes

  2. Introduction

  3. Theme • Tragic young love • Star-crossed lovers

  4. 1595 • The year the play was written

  5. Shakespeare “borrowed” from a lot of sources • Tragedical History of Romeo and Juliet • Arthur Brooke • Brook borrowed the idea from an old Italian poem (just like the other writers of his day)

  6. Shakespeare and his times

  7. Actor

  8. Other actors included: • Richard Burbage • Cuthbert Burbage • Will Kemp • John Hemminges

  9. 1594 • Lord Chamberlain’s Men 1603 • The King’s Men

  10. Theatres

  11. Sets were not elaborate • Before theatres, taverns and town halls hosted plays • $$$ meant you could afford to sit in the balcony • Groundlings paid one penny to stand in the pit

  12. No artificial lighting • Plays were usually performed in the afternoon • Stage was a platform • Groundlings threw garbage

  13. Familiarity with the plots help the audience appreciate the performances • Women were not allowed to be actresses so young boys played the female roles

  14. Theatre troupes usually had 12 men

  15. Actors needed to be versatile (multi-talented)

  16. swordsmen

  17. acrobats

  18. singers

  19. dancers/musicians

  20. The Playwright’s Art

  21. Staging

  22. No outside curtains

  23. Actors’ lines helped the audience understand the setting This is the forest of Arden.

  24. Prologue • an introductory speech • spoken by a narrator also known as a chorus

  25. Romeo and Juliet • takes place is less than one week

  26. Romeo and Juliet • is set in Verona, Italy

  27. Romeo and Juliet • contrasted in • characters • mood • setting

  28. Important Influences inRomeo and Juliet • chance/fate • time • love

  29. Language مسالمpaz paix pace MNP ruhe pokój peace

  30. action + language = good show • pun

  31. Iambic Pentameter • five stressed beats and five unstressed beats per line Shall I compare thee to a summers day?  ∕  ∕  ∕  ∕  ∕

  32. Literary Criticism • Shakespeare was popular with the people but not with the critics

  33. Shakespeare broke the Rulesof Good Writing

  34. Instead of writing for the king and queen… …Shakespeare wrote for the “common folk”

  35. Rather than avoiding the realities of life and not showing crime… …Shakespeare showedmurder on stage

  36. Instead of keeping genres of theatre separate… …Shakespeare combinedcomedyand tragedy to create a different form of entertainment

  37. Rather than agreeing with other playwrights that theatre was to be serious and straight-laced… …Shakespeare ignored the rules of decorum and made theatre fun and accessible for all

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