R+J fragmenten act 1 scene 1

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R+J

servants of the house of Capulet: 

Sampson + Gregory

servants of the house of Montague: 

Abram+ Balthasar

• Sampson says, "Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals" (1.1.1), and Gregory replies, "No, for then we should be colliers" (1.1.2). 

• The modern equivalent of "carry coals" is "take guff," (be insulted) but Gregory pretends not to understand, and says that if they carried coals, they would be coal miners.

•  Sampson, apparently not bright enough to understand Gregory's little joke, explains himself: "I mean, an [if] we be in choler, we'll draw" (1.1.3). 

• To be "in choler" is to be angry, and Sampson means that if they are angry they'll draw their swords from their scabbards. 

Gregory answers with two puns: "Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar" (1.1.4). He's saying that Sampson will not draw his sword, but draw his neck out of the hangman's collar (i.e., noose). 

Gregory's point is that Sampson, despite his tough talk, isn't likely to do anything that will get him in trouble with the law. (Later in the scene we'll see that Gregory is right about Sampson.)

• Insisting that he's a scary guy, Sampson says, "I strike quickly, being moved [angered]" (1.1.5). 

• Gregory responds by reversing Sampson's words: "But thou art not quickly moved [motivated] to strike" (1.1.6). 

• Sampson's answer to this is "A dog of the house of Montague moves me" (1.1.7). 

• Gregory then proceeds to prove that Sampson will run when he sees a Montague.

•  Gregory's proof consists of definitions of words: "To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand [as in "to make a stand"]: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away" (1.1.7-8).

Tybalt

Nephew of lady Capulet

Benvolio?

Nephew and friend of Romeo Montague

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ACT 1, SCENE 2

ACT 1, SCENE 2

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ACT 1, SCENE 2

ACT 1, SCENE 3

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ACT 1, SCENE 2

ACT 1, SCENE 4

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ACT 1, SCENE 2

ACT 1, SCENE 5

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Questions reader page 4

1. Capulet & Montague
2. enemies
3. doomed
4. R+J will both commit suicide
5. Verona, Italy
6. insulting
7. Benvolio 
8. Rosaline
9. Paris

Questions reader page 4

• 10. masked ball
• 11. Rosaline will be there
• 12. personal servant / like a second mum 
• 13. wet nurse = breastfeed / like a second mum to Juliet / likes to talk a lot.
• 14. excellent opportunity to meet Paris
• 15. he wears a mask

Questions reader page 4

• 16. when one is faced with the pain of love, is to hurt love right back and become the "winner" of the conflict.  this line can also be read as advising Romeo to go have some sex to get over Rosaline, as "prick" is slang for "penis."
• 17. Mab, queen of the fairies
• 18. Holy palmer's kiss text is explained in the next slide. 

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Questions reader page 4

• 19. He wants to fight but Lord Capulet stops him. 
• 20. Juliet is saying that she has never loved before, so Romeo is her only love, and the only hate she has ever known has been the hate towards the Montagues that she has been raised by her family to feel which is the family Romeo comes from. “My only love sprung from my only hate!