Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), In the beautiful city of Verona, where our story takes place, a long-standing hatred between two families erupts into new violence. From ancient grudge break to…
Category: Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet characters- Montague or Capulet? Flashcard Example #29029
Sampson Capulet Gregory Capulet Benvolio Montague Abraham Montague Balthasar Montague Tybalt Capulet Juliet Capulet Juliet’s mom Lady Capulet Juliet’s dad Capulet Romeo Montague Romeo’s dad Montague Romeo’s mom Lady Montague Mercutio Montague Paris neither one, but friend of the Capulet’s…
Romeo and Juliet Flashcard Example #33428
Visual Overlay director distorts text – “reading” of playsame with performances, but captured to watch again and again in a film Zefirelli’s period drama (1968) – set in fifteenth century Verona, like the play-Cuts 70% of the text (both films…
FOIL CHARACTERS IN ROMEO AND JULIET Flashcard Example #44250
FOIL CHARACTERS USE: used to compare the each other and highlight particular qualities and character traits. Must have some similarities in order for the reader to compare them. Rosaline and Juliet (in love with Romeo) Rosaline: aloof, quiet, sworn off…
Sonnets / Romeo & Juliet Flashcard Example #26683
What is a sonnet? A sonnet is a 14 line poem having one of several rhyme schemes How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? Shakespeare wrote over 130 sonnets What were sonnets from the Renaissance Era constructed with? Iambic Pentameter How…
Romeo & Juliet – Character Chart (Personalities and Relationships) Flashcard Example #10281
Servingmen & other towns people (Gregory and Sampson) Use inappropriate language and humor when talking to each other. The servingmen in particular are treated poorly and are sometimes given jobs that are almost impossible for them to do. They are…
Romeo and Juliet test Flashcard Example #69319
What is expected of a daughter? A daughter is expected to do work around the house or in service abroad. She will learn from her mother how to act when she is married and learn what she is supposed to…
romeo and juliet characters characteristics Flashcard Example #91909
lord capulet juliets father, rich, strong- willed, outspoken, harsh, strict, in his 50s lady capulet juliets mother, nasty temper, strict, an obidient wife, in her 30s juliet daughter of lord and lady capulet, only child, 13 years old, naive, child…
Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Flashcard Example #33613
(Act 3, scene 1, line 30) Mercutio: “The fee simple? O simple!” “Fee simple”? How simple! This is an example of a pun. (Act 3, scene 1, lines 40-41) Tybalt: “Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo?”Mercutio: “Consort? What, dost thou make…
Major Characters in Romeo and Juliet Flashcard Example #73111
Romeo Tragic hero who is the son of Lord Montague; friend of Mercutio, Benvolio, and Friar Lawrence; secretly marries Juliet; kills Tybalt for killing Mercutio and is banished from Verona; drinks poison believing Juliet is dead Juliet Tragic heroine who…
Romeo & Juliet Prologue: Translation Flashcard Example #71429
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…
Romeo and Juliet Act 1 quotes Flashcard Example #30469
“What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?/Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.” Tybalt:Act 1 Scene 1Tybalt is saying to Benvolio that he must look to him(tybalt), his “death”;the reason for Benvolio’s death. “I do but keep the peace.…