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To find out
more about
Shakespeare
and this play, watch
Shakespeare’s Romeo and
Juliet on Mindset Learn
(Channel 82 on DStv).
Romeo Montague, hero or wimp?
Romeo is the hero of the play, but he doesn't seem too heroic. He starts off with one girl (Rosaline),
falls in love with another (Juliet), marries her in secret, gets his best friend (Mercutio) killed, kills his wife's
cousin (Tybalt), runs off, returns, kills his wife's suitor (Paris), thinks Juliet is dead and commits suicide.
It’s ironic!
Dramatic irony occurs in a novel or play when the reader
or audience:
• knows something that a character does not.
• understands more about a situation or statement and
its implications than those mixed up in it.
• can foresee tragic or comic circumstances.
The most striking example of dramatic irony in Romeo and
Juliet is when Romeo kills himself because he believes
Juliet is dead. Because of the dramatic irony the audience
knows that Juliet isn't dead and may want to shout, "Don’t
do it! She’s alive!" To heighten this, many directors instruct
Juliet to move her hand slightly to indicate that she is
about to wake up, but of course, Romeo doesn’t notice.
This highlights the contrast between the audience knowing
that Juliet is about to wake up (they have heard Friar
Laurence and Juliet planning the "pretend" death) and
Romeo’s firm belief that she is dead.
Fun facts
• Shakespeare set a number of his
plays in Italy
but he never visited the country. The
details that
he included about Italy would have
been known
by the average well-informed Lon
doner of the time.
• The Italian city of Verona, where
Shakespeare's
lovers, Romeo and Juliet, suppos
edly lived, receives about 1000
letters addressed to Juliet every
Valentine's Day.
• Despite the fact that Shakespeare
describes Verona as he
imagined it to be, the guidebooks
actually show you Juliet's
balcony and Romeo's house! Guid
es even relate stories about
families with similar names to the
Montagues and the Capulets.
• The suicide of the two main cha
racters in Romeo and Juliet
makes for a dramatic conclusion,
but suicide is not unique
to this play. It occurs 13 times in
Shakespeare’s plays.
• The story of Romeo and Juliet
was popular in Elizabethan times
with many versions, including the
widely known narrative poem
by Arthur Brooke called The Trag
icall Historye of Romeus
and Juliet.
• The musical play West Side Stor
y is another take on Romeo and
Juliet. Both tell of the plight of youn
g star-crossed lovers who are
kept apart by the prejudice that surr
ounds them, although West
Side Story is set in New York.
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What kind of hero is this?
Romeo is an example of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is
someone (usually, but not always of high status) who enjoys
prosperity, but then makes a wrong choice. His wrong choice
makes him suffer terribly and he eventually dies. In Romeo’s
case, his tragedy is due to a combination of fate, chance, the
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Of all of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and
Juliet is performed most often. The play has
also been adapted into film. Franco Zeffirelli’s
(1968) version, is the first version to use
teenage actors to play the roles of Romeo
and Juliet. Baz Luhrman’s (1996) version,
starring Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes,
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where the Montagues and Capulets are
corporate rivals. These films help bring the
play to life but they are no substitute for
reading the original text as lines and scenes
have to be adapted for film.
feud, teenage passion and the choices he makes. He is
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