Romeo&Juliet

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Romeo & Juliet (1594)

Shakespeare's most famous tragedy

Characters and plot

     - who is connected to whom in what way? (spelling of names!)

3 main themes 

     - know the themes + examples

5 quotes

     - said by who?

     - said in what situation?

     - what does it mean?

Tybalt and Mercutio get into a fight, which Romeo tries to stop.

Romeo only ends up getting in the way, and Mercutio is killed by Tybalt.

Romeo gets very angry and kills Tybalt. He hides with Friar Lawrence.

The prince banishes Romeo from Verona, which the Friar tells him.

He spends one last night with Juliet before leaving.

Juliet's mother informs her that she has to marry Paris in a few days!

Despite saying no, Juliet's mom says she has to marry Paris. Juliet's nurse agrees.

Juliet turns to the Friar for help, who gives her a sleeping potion to make it seem like she died. This way she won't have to marry Paris.

The Friar promises to tell Romeo so he won't think Juliet died.

Juliet takes the fake poison a night before her wedding, and "dies." By doing. this, she avoids the wedding and stays loyal to Romeo.

Romeo's cousin finds out and immediately tells Romeo, who never heard about the plan. He now thinks Juliet is dead and is heartbroken!

Romeo goes to Juliet's tomb, and drinks poison so they can be together in death.

Juliet wakes up moments after Romeo takes the poison. In her grief, she stabs herself with Romeo's dagger, and the two star-crossed lovers die together.

The Montague's and the Capulets find out what happened, and stop their fighting.

Romeo and Juliet's deaths have brought the two families together.

A true tragedy: the family could have saved their children, if they had had all the information we had.

In short...

Character Overview

Themes

3 main themes of this tragedy

The Quotes

Does anyone know what the problem was in Romeo and Juliet's relationship? 

Match the vocabulary with the correct definition a–h with the numbers 1-8

1........ to take place

2........ to step in

3........ to be keen for something

4........ lifeless

5........ in disguise

6............. poison

7........ a priest

8........ a tomb

a. to really want something 

b.to happen

c. wearing different clothes so that people don’t know who you are 

d. a minister of the church who performs ceremonies, like marriage e. to get involved

f.space under the ground or inside a stone building to bury a dead person

g. dead

h. a substance that causes illness or death

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Juliet wakes up, sees Romeo dead and kills herself.

Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead. He takes poison.

Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love.

Juliet takes a drug to make people think she’s dead.

The two families make peace.

Romeo and Juliet secretly get married.

The Montagues and the Capulets hate each other.