Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare This power point is a guide for studying this play by William Shakespeare.

2. Main Points Summary • Genre : Tragic drama • Climax : The deaths of Romeo and Juliet in the Capulet tomb (5.3) • Settings (time) : Renaissance (fourteenth or fifteenth century) • Settings (place) :Verona and Mantua (cities in northern Italy) • Protagonists : Romeo; Juliet • Antagonists : The feuding Montagues and Capulets; Tybalt; the Prince and citizens of Verona; fate • Tones  · Passionate, romantic, intense, rhapsodic, violent, prone to extremes of emotion (ecstasy, rage, misery, etc.)

3. Plot Overview • It is a tragedy about "two star-crossed lovers", each from a family with a grudge against the other. After a party at the capulet mansion Romeo and Juliet fall in love. But with the conflict between their families it becomes difficult for them to see each other. After a brawl Romeo becomes banished for the murder of Tybalt, the two lovers hatch a plan to be together again

4. Characters Montagues: • Romeo — sole heir to the Montague fortune • Lord Montague — Romeo’s father • Lady Montague — Romeo’s mother • Benvolio — Romeo’s cousin • Balthasar — Romeo’s faithful servant • Abraham — Montague servant

5. Capulets: • Juliet — sole heir to the Capulet fortune • Lord Capulet — Juliet’s father • Lady Capulet — Juliet’s mother • Tybalt — Juliet’s cousin • The Nurse — Juliet’s faithful Nurse • Peter — Capulet servant • Sampson — Capulet servant • Gregory — Capulet servant

6. Peripheral Characters: • Friar Lawrence — friend and advisor to Romeo and Juliet • Mercutio — Romeo’s best friend; Prince’s kinsman • Prince Escalus — Prince of Verona; kinsman to Mercutio and Paris • Paris — Loves Juliet • Rosaline — Romeo’s first love who never actually appears in the play • Friar John — Friar Lawrence’s friend • Apothecary — Romeo’s acquaintance in Mantua

7. Themes • Love • Fate and chance • Duality (light and dark) • Time • Youth and age

8. Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory - Love as - Religious Worship - Thumb Biting - Sex and Death - Oxymoron and Paradox - Plants and Poison - Queen Mab - Light in Darkness - Night - Death and Premonitions of death

9. Important Quotes • Tybalt: "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.“ • Benvolio: 'Alas, that love so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.' • Nurse: 'Why, he's a man of wax.‘ • Lady Capulet: 'Verona's summer hath not such a flower.‘ • Romeo: 'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night.‘ • Mercutio: 'Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh. Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied. Cry but "Ay me," pronounce but "love" and “dove”

10. Romeo: 'He jests at scars that never felt a wound.‘ • Juliet: 'O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?’ • Juliet: 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.‘ • Juliet: 'My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.‘ • Romeo: 'Then I defy you stars!‘ • Prince: 'For never was a story of more woe            Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.'

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