Shakespeare

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Shakespeare /Romeo and Juliet

Today's lesson:

• Lesson goals
• Life of Shakespeare
• Role of Shakespeare in the English language
• Shakespeare's plays
• Romeo and Juliet
• Prologue
• Reenactment
• Opinion

LESSON GOALS

At the end of this lesson:

• You will have learnt about William Shakespeare and his life.
  
• You are able to explain the role of Shakespeare in the development of the English language.
• You are introduced to the plays of Shakespeare
• You are familiar with background of Romeo and Juliet
• You are introduced to the content of the play Romeo and Juliet. 
• You are able to explain the prologue of Romeo and Juliet
• You have participated in a modern reenactment of Romeo and Juliet
• You are able to express your opinion on a situation like the one of Romeo and Juliet.

What do you know about Shakespeare?

Around which period did Shakespeare live?

1. 1200-1300
2. 1300-1400
3. 1500-1600
4. 1700-1800

What did Shakespeare mostly write?

1. Books
2. short stories
3. poems
4. plays

Shakespeare

• Stratford upon Avon
• 1564-1616 (52 y)
• Plays + poems
• The Globe - London
• Influence on English language

Which Shakespeare plays can you name?

ROMEO AND JULIET

• Written in 1599
• Most popular
• Juliet only 13 years
• Prologue / ending no surprise
• Verona
• No balcony in balcony scene
• Movie 1996
• Romeo = male lover

Prologue

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 star-cross’d lovers take their life;

Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

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;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Now it is your time to act!!!

Imagine that you have just met the most fabulous and wonderful person and, incredibly,  fallen in love. You are absolutely sure that they are the person you want to spend the rest of  your life with. The only problem is that their family is at war with your family and your parents  would never allow you to see each other.  What would you do and why? 

• stop seeing this person so you don’t upset your family
• tell your family about the situation and hope they understand
•  see the person in secret
• marry the person in secret
• move away to another place with the person

  Is there anything else you could do?  

THE END