| In the prologue, Shakespeare tells his audience what they are to expect in the play. Why do you suppose Shakespeare chooses to use this technique? | To give a background, so its easier to follow along the storyline. |
| Where is the play set? | Verona, Italy |
| Put the following lines into your own words:”From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;” | Two people from the rival families are destined by fate to fall in love and take their lives |
| What does the term “star-cross’d lovers” suggest? | Their lives are “written in the stars” and in the end so is their death. It is their destiny. Nobody can control what is going to happen. |
| Put these lines into your own words:”Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrowsDoth, with their death, bury their parents’ strife.” | The death of the children ends the feud between their families. |
| Why does the Friar agree to help Romeo and Juliet get married? | He thinks that it will help their families to get along better |
| As Romeo enters, Mercutio and Benvolio are discussing Romeo’s longing for Rosaline and Tybalt’s challenge to Romeo. What change in Romeo’s behavior does Mercutio comment on? What is the essence of the dialogue until Pete and the Nurse enter? | They say that it is great to see the old Romeo that was fun and happy, rather than the unhappy Romeo that he had been for some time. |
| The Nurse and Peter arrive looking for Romeo. How does Romeo respond? | He says that he is going to grow old waiting for you to tell us what you need. |
| After Benvolio and Mercutio leave, the Nurse asks, “…what saucy merchant was this, hat was so full of his ropery?” What is Romeo’s answer? | That he is just a man who is full of himself, likes to hear his own voice. |
| The Nurse, expresses certain doubts about Romeo. What are these doubts, and how does Romeo respond? | That his intentions aren’t honorable, he proves that he is sincere |
| What is the message that Romeo gives to the Nurse for Juliet? | To meet him at Friar Lawrence’s cell to have confession and to be married |
| Romeo tells the Nurse that his “man” will deliver something beyond the abbey-wall. What is Romeo’s “man” bringing? | A rope ladder |
| Juliet waits anxiously for the Nurse to return. How is Juliet able to justify her Nurse’s tardiness? | That she is old so it might take her a while, because she is slower |
| How does the Nurse tease Juliet? | She won’t tell her what Romeo said, she keeps stalling. |
| The Nurse is off to fetch the rope ladder. What is this rope ladder going to be used for? | So Romeo can climb up to Juliet’s house, the night of their wedding. |
| When speaking with Friar Laurence, while waiting for Juliet, Romeo says: “do thou close our hands with holy words,/Then love-devouring death do what he dare—It is enough I may but call her mine.” After interpreting Romeo’s words, what do you think this passage suggests? | All he wants is to be with her. As long as their married even death won’t be able to keep them apart, nothing else matters |
| What follows after Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Laurence exit from the stage? | They get married |
| strife, rivalry | mutiny |
| passionate | piteous |
| enemy, nemesis | adversary |
| increading | augmenting |
| becoming | beseeming |
| people who dig or sell coals | colliers |
| thicket | covert |
| drove | drave |
| before | ere |
| a fight, brawl | fray |
| inquired, questioned | importuned |
| open | ope |
| weapons | partisans |
| evil, wickid | pernicious |
| future generations | posterity |
| the act of being encircled | siege |
| cruel, vicious | tyrannous |
| brave | valiant |
| people whose opinions differ from the official faith | hereitcs |
| helped | holp |
| a persistent disease | languish |
| deserve | merit |
| barely, hardly | scant |
| sir | sirrah |
| nipple, breast | dug |
| take flight and puncture like an arrow | endart |
| aspect, characteristic | lineament |
| the margin | margent |
| dangerous, hazardous | perilous |
| a crucifix | rood |
| touchy, oversensitive, irritable | tetchy |
| say | trow |
| a stone cut with small figures cut into it | agate-stone |
| a city ruler | alderman |
| traps | ambuscadoes |
| promptly, soon | anon |
| a secular lifestyle | benefice |
| burden | burthen |
| a sheer, light filmy substance | gossamer |
| wood | lath |
| mud | mire |
| overly lengthy | prolixity |
| direciton | steerage |
| a warrior | tartar |
| harnesses | traces |
| wicked, heinous | vile |
| the face | visage |
| people without cares | wanton |
| fury, nager | choler |
| injury, harm | disparagement |
| detest, disgust | gall |
| nuptial | a wedding ceremony |
| is a requirement; is essential | perforce |
| a rude, impolite by | princox |
| threatening, ominous | prodigious |
| a small sword | rapier |
| hurt, injure | scathe |
| festivites | solemnity |
| a dependent | ward |
| a domain, territory | demesnes |
| the act of calling a superior for help | invocation |
| physically blind | purblind |
| Roman goddess of love and beauty | Venus |
| hatred | enmity |
| a hawk trainer | falconer |
| chains, shackles | gyves |
| worship | idolatry |
| Chief Roman god, Jupiter | Jove |
| clothing; appearance | livery |
| falsehoods | perjuries |
| passionless, indifferent, unsympathetic | perverse |
| celibate, virtuous | vestal |
| conscious of, aware | ware |
| tears | brine |
| speckling, spotting | chequering |
| scolds, reprimantds | chid’st |
| excessively loving | doting |
| tree of the willow family | osier |
| confession | shrift |
| swiftly; rapidly | apace |
| a prostitue | bawd |
| split | cleft |
| a carriage; transportation | convoy |
| a prostitute | dawdy |
| a measurement of 45 inches | ell |
| cavaliers, suitors | fantasticoes |
| changed to a fish | fishified |
| knees | hams |
| pie made during Lent | Lenten |
| rather, “just as soon” | Lieve |
| hurt | mar |
| gossiping, babbling | prating |
| fish eggs | roe |
| forgive, pardoned | shrived |
| loyalty, devotion | troth |
| disturbed, troubled | vexed |
| a mild curse | beshrew |
| fabricate, act | feign |
| a curse | fie |
| couriers, messengers | heralds |
| leave | hie |
| incapacitated, physically handicapped | lame |
| magnificent extravagant | wanton |
| compliment, glorify | blazon |
| a stone with which to make fire | flint |
| playful, spirited, exuberant | wanton |
| It features _____ facing a conflict | characters |
| the struggle in a story | conflict |
| the point of greatest tension | climax |
| speeches of the characters, tells the story, and not, as in fiction, the voice of a narrator | dialogue |
| ____ and _____ are the basic units of drama | acts and scenes |
| The author of a play, called the _____, provides the ___, or text, of a play | playwright, script |
| tell how the work is to be performed, or staged. Providing details about sets, lighting, sound effects, props, costumes, and acting | stage directions |
| OF, DS, US | off stage, downstage- close to the audience, upstage- far from audience |
| the constructions indicating where the drama takes place | sets |
| movable objects, like swords or pens, that actors use onstage | props |
| insight into life | theme |
| main character | tragic hero |
| long, uninterrupted speech delivered by a character to other characters who are onstage but remain silent | monologue |
| a speech in which a character alone on stage reveals private thoughts and feelings that the audience is allowed to overhear | soliloquy |
| a brief remark in which a character expresses private thoughts to the audience rather than to other characters | aside |
Romeo and Juliet act I and II
November 26, 2019