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Sonnet
ROMEO & JULIET
by William Shakespeare
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Shakespearean Sonnet
• 14 lines
Three quatrains
ABAB
CDCD
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One couplet
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet Mystery
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Wrote collection of 154 sonnets
Fair youth (1‐126)
1‐17 urge him to get married
Dark lady (127‐152)
Sonnet 130
Rival poet (78‐86)
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From Italian “sonetto” meaning “little song”
Began in 13th century
Many writers used this form
Most famous (to us today): Shakespeare
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A Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? B Thou art more lovely and more temperate. A Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, B And summer's lease hath all too short a date. C Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, D And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; C And every fair from fair sometime declines, D By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; E But thy eternal summer shall not fade F Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; E Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, F When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: G So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Iambic Pentameter
• Iamb = foot
Pent = 5
• Ten syllable line with five “feet”
• One “foot” or “iamb” = (Unstressed syllable + stressed syllable)
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Two households, both alike in dignity
un‐stressed
stressed
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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star­cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death­mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
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Couplet
Prose
• Pair of rhymed lines
• Writing that follows regular speech patterns with no specific rhythm or structure
• Who speaks in prose?
‐ Commoners, characters speaking in casual conversation
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PUN INTENDED
Blank Verse
• Writing with regular meter (rhythm) but no rhyme
• Who speaks in blank verse?
‐ Nobles, characters making important speeches
• What might determine whether dialogue is in prose or blank verse?
I'm reading a book about anti­gravity.
It's impossible to put down.
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?
He's all right now.
I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang,
but eventually it came back to me.
At the petting zoo I saw a sheep scratching itself.
Turns out it had fleece.
A three­legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named Amal. The other goes to a family in Spain. They name him Juan. Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Amal.
He responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal." Two atoms are walking down the street and they run into each other. One says to the other, "Are you all right?" "No, I lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, I'm positive." There was a man who entered a local newspaper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. Mar 27­7:48 AM
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Pun
Oxymoron
• Combination of seemingly contradictory words
• Play on two meanings of the same word or two words that sound the same
• Example: Coals/colliers/collar (Act 1, Scene i)
Dry ice
Jumbo shrimp
Screaming silence
Example on pg. 587
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Foil
Foil
• A character who provides a strong contrast to another character
• Emphasizes traits by comparison
• Act I Foils:
• Tybalt & Mercutio
• Romeo & Benvolio
• Lady Capulet & Nurse
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Foreshadowing
• Romeo’s last comment in Act I, Scene 4
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Conflict
• Internal
• External
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15­minute Romeo & Juliet
• Prepare a dramatic rendition of each of your lines.
• You may read each line as a chorus, individually, or
in sub­groups (everyone must speak part of the text).
• You must physicalize/dramatize your lines.
­ Will you use props?
­ Will you be the props?
­ How will you represent the words visually?
• Rehearse each of your lines (with corresponding
dramatization). Be sure you know when you will be
presenting your lines.
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17th Century Pick-Up Lines
The Mysteries of Love & Eloquence,
Or the Arts of Wooing and Complementing
(mid­17th century handbook)
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Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2
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But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? (2)
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Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon (4)
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My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound (58­59)
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With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls (66)
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There lies more peril in thine eyes than twenty of their swords (71­72)
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I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes (118­120)
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It is too rash... like the lightning which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens (121)
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This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower (121)
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep (133)
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love toward school with heavy looks (154)
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Figurative Language in Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene ii)
Imagery
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
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Paradox
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Soliloquy
• Situation or statement with two parts that seem contradictory but are in fact true
• Example from Act II, Scene iii
• Root: SOLO
• A long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage (or when a character reveals their private thoughts, oblivious to others onstage)
• EXAMPLES?
Juliet "O Romeo..."
Friar ‐ Act II, Scene iii
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Aside
• Comments made to another character or audience not meant to be heard by others onstage
• Example?
‐ Romeo ‐ pg. 610
‐ Act III.v.81
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Malapropism
• Unintentional but often comical confusion of two similar sounding words
• Example?
‐ Nurse: II.iv.114 (confidence/conference)
‐ Nurse: II.iv.190 (sententious/sentence)
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