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Write a paragraph (6-8 sentences) in which
you explain how Shakespeare’s use of
imagery and/or diction (in Sonnet 18)
suggests his attitude about the enduring
power of poetry.
In other words: based on Sonnet 18, why
does Shakespeare think poetry (the written
word) is so important.
Use at least 2 examples of imagery/diction
(quotes) from the sonnet
Romeo and Juliet Prologue:
 The prologue is delivered by the chorus – the
sort of narrator of the play
 It will outline/summarize the play for the
reader/viewer
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By studying this prologue, we will get a better
understanding of the diction Shakespeare
uses throughout the play
 Complete R&J Prologue questions for
Quatrains 1-3 and Rhyming Couplet
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Take out prologue HW
Move desks to be with a partner
On the back of the sheet, complete #1 (other
movies, TV shows, books etc. that follow a
similar story line to R&J – “two lovers from
different places who can’t be together”
AGENDA: Discuss essay prompts (rough draft
due Thursday), review HW, creative writing,
character chart, Act 1 Scene 1
Rewrite the opening sonnet in your own contemporary world.
A Question to Consider: What is the thing that could tear apart your chosen “Two
Households”?
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4.
Introduce your two modern households,
Where does the story take place?
How old’s the argument – what’s the mutiny?
What will be the end result of the two
“households”?
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.
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8.
What’s the origin of your new “thing”?
What’s going to happen to it in the end?
What’s the general story of your new “thing”?
What will happen to the households in the end?
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
9. Be specific about the story
10. How is it going to affect the modern household?
11. Why is the new “thing” the only that can change
the households?
12. How long is the story going to last?
The fearful passage of their death-mark'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;
13. What does your audience need to do?
14. What do you want the audience to be able to do
at the end?
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend
Objective: Students will create original recreation of R&J Prologue
Objective: Students will recreate Act 1 Scene of Romeo and
Juliet and analyzing the Prince’s speech
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Sampson (Cap)– “talks a big game”, looks to
fight but not really big enough to actually fight
Gregory (Cap)– very witty/clever with words,
quick to make funny comments about friends
and others
Abram (Mont) – gets offended easily and seeks
fighting Capulets
Benvolio (Mont)– calm, level-headed, sees no
need for fighting, tries to stop it when he sees it
Tybalt (Cap)– an excellent fighter and seeks it
out, very aggressive
Act 1 Scene 1
PRINCE
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel!—
Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
And made Verona’s ancient citizens
Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans in hands as old,
Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time, all the rest depart away.
You, Capulet, shall go along with me,
And, Montague, come you this afternoon
To know our farther pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart
Complete a translation
on your handout.
Go line by line and put
in your own words.
THIS IS NOT A
SUMMARY.
It should read like the
original monologue,
only with different,
more modern language.
Act 1 Scene 1
PRINCE
You rebels! Enemies of the peace! Men who
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
turn their weapons against their own
Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel!—
neighbors – They won’t listen to me? – You
Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts, there! You men, you beasts, who satisfy your
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
anger with fountains of each others’ blood
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
I’ll have you tortured if you don’t put down
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
your swords and listen to your angry prince.
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
Three times now riots have broken out in
And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.
this city, all because of a casual word from
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
you, old Capulet and Montague. Three times
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
the peace has been disturbed in our streets,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
and Verona’s old citizens have had to take
And made Verona’s ancient citizens
off their dress clothes and pick up rusty old
Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,
spears to part you. If you ever cause a
To wield old partisans in hands as old,
disturbance on our streets again, you’ll pay
Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.
for it with your lives. Everyone else, go away
If ever you disturb our streets again,
fro now. You, Capulet, come with me.
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time, all the rest depart away.
Montague, this afternoon come to old FreeYou, Capulet, shall go along with me,
town, the court when I deliver judgments,
And, Montague, come you this afternoon
and I’ll tell you what else I want from you. As
To know our farther pleasure in this case,
for the rest of you, I’ll say this once more; go
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
away or be put to death.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart
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Sampson and Gregory (Capulets) discuss hatred for
Montagues – get into fight with Montague servants
Benvolio attempts to break them up
Tybalt sees this and attacks, and brawl spreads through
the streets
Prince arrives and declares to Lord Capulet and Lord
Montague that next disruption will result in death
Lord and Lady Montague worry about Romeo
Benvolio claims he’s been very sad
Romeo tells Benvolio he’s sad because he love Rosaline
and she doesn’t love him back
Benvolio claims he will forget her and find another
beauty
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Count Paris declares to Lord Capulet his wish to
marry Juliet
Capulet claims he should wait 2 years and for
Juliet’s consent
He invites Paris to party that evening
He sends (illiterate) servant with guest list for
party
Romeo and Benvolio help servant read list –
Rosaline is on the list and they decide to crash
the party
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Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris wants to
marry her. Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris is
a great husband.
Juliet admits that she is not interested in
marrying anybody.
Juliet admits she never felt love, but will
consider Paris’ proposal.
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Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio and others go to
party wearing masks
Romeo is anxious because of an ominous dream
Mercutio mocks him with a speech about a
dream-giving queen of fairies – calls Romeo
weak minded
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Ethiop= Ethiopian
woman. Represents
the Elizabethan time’s
fascination with all
things foreign
(remember they are
exploring the world at
this point).
The jewel is beauty
stacked on top of more
beauty and mystery.
Act 1 Scene 5
Act 1 Scene 5
ROMEO
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
What images does Romeo
associate with Juliet?
What do this images reveal
about Juliet?
What do they reveal about
Romeo?
What symbol does Romeo
compare Juliet to? What does
this symbol represent?
How does he express his
attitude towards Juliet in
religious terms?
How does Benvolio’s prediction
come true?
 A pilgrim is any person who travels a
long distance to reach a holy or
divine place. They would often
travel to birth places of Catholic
Saints to touch the hands of statues.
Act 1 Scene 5
ROMEO
(taking JULIET’s hand) If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
Act 1 Scene 5
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET
How do Romeo and Juliet express
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
a religious devotion?
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
What does he say to convince
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Juliet to allow him to kiss her?
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
How many lines is this
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
conversation?
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.
What is the rhyme scheme?
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Do you notice anything about
ROMEO
Shakespeare’s form of this
Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
conversation?
Kisses her
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as
particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
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Why do you think Shakespeare never explains
how the quarrel between the Montagues and
the Capulets began?
Describe Romeo’s mood when he enters. What’s
the cause of it?
Why does Benvolio urge Romeo and attend
Capulet’s feast? Why does Romeo want to go?
What does the language used in R&J’s sonnet
together show about their feelings for each
other?
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Nurse v. Lady Capulet
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Tybalt v. Benvolio
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Mercutio v. Romeo
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Romeo is so in love with Juliet he can’t bring
himself to leave her
He scales a wall and enters Capulet’s garden
Benvolio and Mercutio looks for Romeo
Act 2 Scene 2
ROMEO
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
JULIET appears in a window above
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!
It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.
Oh, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—
I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!
Act 2 Scene 2
What does Romeo mean in line 1?
Explain this metaphor.
In this line, what does the audience
know that Romeo does not?
What does imagery does Romeo
associate Juliet with throughout this
passage?
Do you think Romeo really loves Juliet
at this point? Why or why not?
If you are Juliet and realize a stranger
was speaking about you like this, how
would you react?
Which words (DICTION) in this passage
stand out as particularly meaningful or
powerful? Explain why.
Act 2 Scene 2
JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO
(aside) Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name, which is no part of thee
Take all myself
Act 2 Scene 2
Juliet is unaware of Romeo’s
presence. How would her speech be
different if she knew he was there?
Wherefore does NOT mean where.
Juliet is frustrated about something
regarding Romeo. What could
“wherefore” mean?
What does Juliet argue in this analogy
(comparison)? What is she trying to
convince herself?
Why does Juliet tell Romeo to “doff”
(remove) his name?
This scene takes place at night after
the party. In what 2 ways does
darkness influence what happens in
the scene?
In what ways does Juliet exhibit more
common sense and practicality than
Romeo?
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Immediately after he leaves Juliet, Romeo heads
directly to Friar Lawrence
The Friar agrees to marry them hoping that the
marriage may end the feud between their
families
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Mecutio and Benvolio meet up with Romeo in
the street (right after Romeo meets with Friar)
Romeo defeats Mercutio in a verbal battle of
wits
Nurse finds Romeo and gives him a message
from Juliet; meet at Friar Lawrence’s cell this
afternoon to get married
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Juliet waits for the Nurse to return
When the Nurse returns she messes with Juliet
– takes a long time to deliver to the good news
Juliet learns that she needs to go to Friar
Lawrence’s cell that afternoon to be wed to
Romeo
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Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet
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If you were adapting this stage play for the
screen, would you include the
wedding ceremony? Why or why not?
 What are the potential difficulties?
 If the wedding were to be included, what would be
gained? What would be lost?
Act 3 Scene 1
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as
ROMEO
particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO
No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall
find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
cat to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you
between us? I was hurt under your arm.
ROMEO
Act 3 Scene 1
I thought all for the best.
MERCUTIO
Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,
And soundly too. Your houses!
Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO
ROMEO
This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally,
My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
In my behalf. My reputation stained
With Tybalt’s slander.—Tybalt, that an hour
Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper softened valor’s steel!
Enter BENVOLIO
BENVOLIO
O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead!
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
ROMEO
This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.
How does Mercutio display his verbal
wit even as he’s dying?
Who does Mercutio blame for this
accident? Why?
How could this display
foreshadowing?
Paraphrase Romeo’s last two lines.
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Juliet misses and longs for her Romeo
Nurse informs her that Romeo killed Tybalt and
has been banished
Juliet first feels grief for her cousin, but it is brief
and she then worries for Romeo
Nurse promises to bring Romeo to her that night
Act 3 Scene 3
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Hold thy desperate hand.
Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art.
Thy tears are womanish. Thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man,
And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better tempered.
Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself,
And slay thy lady that in thy life lives
By doing damnèd hate upon thyself?
Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?
Since birth and heaven and earth, all three do meet
In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose?
Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit,
Which, like a usurer, abound’st in all
And usest none in that true use indeed
Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
Digressing from the valor of a man;
Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,
Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish;
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Act 3 Scene 3
How does Friar Lawrence
begin talking Romeo out of
suicide?
What does Friar Lawrence
remind Romeo of here?
What does Friar Lawrence
believe Romeo will lose if he
goes through with suicide?
What arguments does the
Friar give against suicide?
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Cont…
Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
Like powder in a skill-less soldier’s flask,
Is set afire by thine own ignorance;
And thou dismembered with thine own defence.
What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive,
For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead—
There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou slew’st Tybalt— there art thou happy.
The law that threatened death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile— there art thou happy.
A pack of blessings light upon thy back,
Happiness courts thee in her best array,
But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,
Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love.
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed.
Ascend her chamber, hence, and comfort her.
But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,
Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went’st forth in lamentation.—
Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady,
And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.
Romeo is coming.
Act 3 Scene 3 cont.
What 3 factors does Friar
Lawrence wish Romeo to focus
on the bright side?
What effect does the Friar’s
repetition have?
What is Friar’s plan for Romeo?
Do you think there could have
been a better plan? Explain
What does this speech reveal
about Friar Lawrence’s
character? (use evidence from
text)
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Paris approaches Capulet again regarding his
proposal to Juliet
Capulet this time agrees, claims Juliet will do as
he says, and that they will marry in 3 days
After spending the night together, Romeo and Juliet
separate at first light
 Right after, Lady Capulet enters and informs Juliet
of her planned marriage to Paris
 Juliet refuses  her father threatens to put her out
on the street  Juliet pleads with her mother  she
then asks the Nurse for advice  Nurse says she
should forget Romeo and marry Paris
 Juliet outrage (secretly) and claims she will see Friar
Lawrence to confess her sin of disobeying her father
(while really going to ask her help)
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Benvolio tells the Prince the story of what
happened. Find his speech to the Prince, and
rewrite it in your own words but from the
perspective of a Capulet.
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Do you agree with the Prince banishing Romeo
as opposed to killing him? Why?
How does this banishment affect Romeo?
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this scene while you write down THE
MOST IMPORTANT information
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this scene while you write down THE
MOST IMPORTANT information
Act 4 Scene 3
JULIET
Farewell!—God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I’ll call them back again to comfort me.—
Nurse!—What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial. (holds out the vial)
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
No, no. This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.
(lays her knife down)
What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is. And yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point.
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Act 4 Scene 3
What three ideas cross Juliet’s
mind as she worries about the
different possible results of
drinking the potion?
What internal conflict does
Juliet struggle with in the
soliloquy?
What other fears does Juliet
have about the plan if the
potion works?
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Cont…
Act 4 Scene 3 cont…
Or, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place—
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where for these many hundred years the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed;
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort—?
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad—?
Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environèd with all these hideous fears,
And madly play with my forefather’s joints,
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud,
Which words (DICTION) in this
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,
passage stand out as particularly
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
Oh, look! Methinks I see my cousin’s ghost
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee.
Explain the effect of the
imagery in this section of
the soliloquy.
How does Juliet overcome
all her fears?
(She drinks and falls down on the bed, hidden by the bed curtains)
 I will verbally explain the basic plot
of this scene while you write down
THE MOST IMPORTANT
information
 I will verbally explain the basic plot
of this scene while you write down
THE MOST IMPORTANT
information
Act 5 Scene 1
APOTHECARY
Act 5 Scene 3
Who calls so loud?
ROMEO
Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor.
What sort of poison does Romeo
Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
seek? What effect is he looking for?
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
What does this display of his
As will disperse itself through all the veins
mindset?
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Why does the Apothecary worry
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.
about selling Romeo the poison?
APOTHECARY
Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s law
How does Romeo convince the
Is death to any he that utters them.
Apothecary to sell him the poison?
ROMEO
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
(what figurative language does he
And fear’st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks.
use)
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back.
The world is not thy friend nor the world’s law.
The world affords no law to make thee rich.
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Which words (DICTION) in this
(holds out money)
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Cont…
Act 5 Scene 3
APOTHECARY
What is the effect of using the word
My poverty, but not my will, consents. cordial (def: restorative medicine)?
ROMEO
What does this say about Romeo’s
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
mentality at this point?
APOTHECARY
(gives ROMEO poison) Put this in any liquid thing you will
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
ROMEO
(gives APOTHECARY money)
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison. Thou hast sold me none. Which words (DICTION) in this
Farewell. Buy food, and get thyself in flesh.— passage stand out as particularly
Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
meaningful or powerful? Explain
To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee. why.
Act 5 Scene 2
FRIAR JOHN
Holy Franciscan Friar! Brother, ho!
Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE
FRIAR LAWRENCE
This same should be the voice of Friar John.
Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?
Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
FRIAR JOHN
Going to find a barefoot brother out,
One of our order, to associate me,
Here in this city visiting the sick,
And finding him, the searchers of the town,
Suspecting that we both were in a house
Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth.
So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?
FRIAR JOHN
I could not send it—here it is again—
(gives FRIAR LAWRENCE a letter)
Act 5 Scene 2
What circumstances keep Friar John
from delivering the letter to
Romeo?
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Cont…
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
So fearful were they of infection.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge,
Of dear import, and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence.
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
FRIAR JOHN
Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee.
Exit FRIAR JOHN
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Now must I to the monument alone.
Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake.
She will beshrew me much that Romeo
Hath had no notice of these accidents.
But I will write again to Mantua,
And keep her at my cell till Romeo come.
Poor living corse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!
How could the mishandling
of the letter to Romeo alter
Friar Lawrence’s plans for
Juliet?
Predict what might happen
next.
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Act 5 Scene 3
ROMEO
In faith, I will.—Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris.
What said my man, when my betossèd soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?
Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
To think it was so?—O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book.
I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
ROMEO opens the tomb to reveal JULIET inside
A grave? Oh, no. A lantern, slaughtered youth,
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred.
(lays PARIS in the tomb)
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry, which their keepers call
A lightning before death! Oh, how may I
Call this a lightning?—O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there.—
Act 5 Scene 3
What does Romeo’s treatment of
Paris (after he kills him) display of
his character?
What irony does Romeo present
as he describes Juliet’s
appearance?
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Cont…
Act 5 Scene 3
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favor can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin.—Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chamber maids. Oh, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
(kisses JULIET, takes out the poison)
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide.
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark.
Here’s to my love! (drinks the poison) O true apothecary,
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
ROMEO dies
How does Shakespeare create
suspense for the audience here?
What other part of the play do these
lines connect to? (inauspicious =
unlucky)
What does Romeo personify
throughout the soliloquy? What is
the effect? Provide different
examples to support answer.
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Act 5 Scene 3
Act 5 Scene 3
What does this speech reveal
FRIAR LAWRENCE
I will be brief, for my short date of breath
about Friar Lawrence’s
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
character?
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife.
Does the Friar add any of his
I married them, and their stol'n marriage day
own thoughts/opinions of the
Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death
Banished the new-made bridegroom from the city— situation? Why or why not?
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betrothed and would have married her perforce
To County Paris. Then comes she to me,
And with wild looks bid me devise some mean
To rid her from this second marriage,
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,
A sleeping potion, which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
Which words (DICTION) in this
The form of death.
passage stand out as particularly
Meantime I writ to Romeo,
That he should hither come as this dire night,
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Cont…
To help to take her from her borrowed grave,
Being the time the potion’s force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stayed by accident, and yesternight
Returned my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixèd hour of her waking
Came I to take her from her kindred’s vault,
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo,
But when I came, some minute ere the time
Of her awakening, here untimely lay
The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,
And bear this work of heaven with patience.
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know, and to the marriage
Her Nurse is privy. And if aught in this
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed some hour before his time
Unto the rigor of severest law.
Act 5 Scene 3
Do you think the Friar is worried
about possible consequences for
himself? Explain.
How does the audience retain the
respect of the audience? (even
though it was partially his fault for
the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and
Paris) – use evidence to support
Which words (DICTION) in this
passage stand out as particularly
meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
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What good has come from the deaths of Romeo and
Juliet?
Who is most to blame for their deaths?
Is Romeo’s love for Rosaline different from his love for
Juliet?
Does Romeo’s character change during the play? Explain
Does Juliet develop a will of her own during the play, or
does she merely shift her obedience from her parents to
Romeo?
From 1660 to 1845, Romeo and Juliet was most often
performed with an alternate ending in which the young
lovers did not die, but lived happily ever after.
 Would you have preferred the play to end happily? Why?
 How does a happy ending alter the meaning of the play?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ii5PLxnNpk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D6BxQwYQ4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCe0nzdD76k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ClSABkDp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1b-cnCffO0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryC4YqKKvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7t_eBf600I
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kkig_romeojuliet-opening_shortfilms