Lit week 2b

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Welcome

v6

Take your brochure, p. 14

Read along (fragment 1)

'O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?'
What does Juliet mean?

Brochure page 16

Read along (fragment 2)

Work with a classmate

Do assignment 3

Read 'Dramatic irony'

Do assignment 4a (which is in itself a summary of the play)

Do assignment 4b, question a and b

         (study the pictures from left to right

           there's an explanation on p. 21 )

Watch these scenes from 'Shakespeare in Love'

In the film Shakespeare in Love the male actor playing Juliet wasn’t able to play at the very last moment: his voice had just broken. A woman who had been present during the rehearsals (disguised as a boy) offers to be Juliet during the debut performance – which is forbidden, no women on the stage!

1 Note what the Elizabethan theatre looked like.

2 In the prologue the bad outcome is already disclosed

Tragic end

-Juliet had taken a potion which would make her seem dead for

  42 hours to avoid marriage

-She had sent a message to Romeo to tell him about this, but

  the message didn't reach him

-Romeo thinks Julia is really dead ...

Finish assignments 4 and 5

Homework: finish and learn chapter 2 (without assignment 6)