PPT-Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Unit Outline This text is worth 25 of your final literature grade You will have to answer ONE question from a choice of two This is on the second literature paper with the poetry anthology questions. Background Notes on . Shakespeare and His Career. With a Focus on The Tragedy of . Romeo & Juliet. A Shakespearean Joke. While visiting his Grandma in Texas, Billy spotted a bowlegged cowboy. “Look at . By William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare. Background . Born April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England.. Parents: Mary Arden and John Shakespeare, a respected glove-maker.. He attended the local grammar school where he learned to read and write in English and Latin.. Shakespeare . the Writer. Above all, Shakespeare considered himself a poet.. At one period when the theatres were closed from 1593-4, under his patron the Earl of Southampton, he published two lengthy narrative poems . Romeo & Juliet. Ms. Forsyth and Mr. Bernstein. Honors English 9. Bear Creek High School. This presentation will…. inform you about the life and work of the mysterious William Shakespeare.. provide you details about Elizabethan society and theater.. Who am I?. 26. th. April 1564. 23. rd. April 1616. Test your knowledge – . Work out which of these are . Shakepeare’s. words..... ‘Better . a witty fool than a Foolish . Wit’. ‘Revolutionaries . The whole play is tinged with sadness because in the prologue, we are told the characters die.. The main reason they die is due to fate or “the Heavens”. They are innocent victims of their parents’ feud.. http://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9t11BsE0yk. Important Dates in. Shakespeare’s Life. 1564 William Shakespeare is born in April (probably the 23rd) in Stratford-On-Avon (94 miles from London) to John and Mary.. . By William Shakespeare. . Summary. Romeo and Juliet. is a story about two teenagers who fall in love but are forbidden to see each other by their parents. They meet one night at a party (Romeo is actually there to check out another girl, Rosaline) and quickly fall in love. Unfortunately, Juliet’s parents already have a husband picked out for her. So, the two decide to get married and enlist the help of Juliet’s nurse to act as a messenger between the two and Friar Laurence who agrees to marry them. However, plans go awry after Romeo is banished from Verona and doesn’t get filled in on the plans that Juliet has for them to live happily ever after…. Act 2 . Scenes 1 & 2. By Erin . Salona. Act 2, Prologue. Summarizes Act 1. Addresses the speed in which Romeo and Juliet have fallen in love. Makes fun at the way in which Romeo abandoned Rosaline quickly for Juliet. Similes & Metaphors. Simile example:. Juliet:. My . bounty is as boundless as the . sea,. . / My . love as deep; the more I give to . thee,. . / The . more I have to give.. Metaphor example:. Lord Capulet: . William Shakespeare. Context. Original story not created by Shakespeare. The . Tragical. History of . Romeus. and Juliet by Arthur Brook—1562 (two years before Shakespeare was born). Takes place in Verona, Italy. themes. In the play, and why?. Pupils demonstrate . a . sustained and developed . understanding of how . language and techniques are used in the text. . GRADE . B. P. upils will be able to identify various language features and techniques with some relevant explanation. . William Shakespeare. Context. Original story not created by Shakespeare. The . Tragical. History of . Romeus. and Juliet by Arthur Brook—1562 (two years before Shakespeare was born). Takes place in Verona, Italy. Grabbers for Lit Analysis. Scene. 2. Simile. 3. Riddle. “A young man lurks in the bushes. His heart jumps as he sees a light at a window. The girl he kissed just hours earlier appears and speaks to the night. But is it true love?”.