Shortened Romeo & Juliet - All Acts Group 1
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Shortened Version)
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PROLOGUE |
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Chorus: In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. |
Watch this video on the Hatfields and the McCoys. QUESTION 1: What are the similarities between these real-life families, and the Capulets and Montagues?
Romeo and Juliet is often criticized because they fall in love so quickly, but that’s a modern approach to an older text. QUESTION 2: How does the prologue serve as more of a warning against blind hatred instead of blind love?
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ACT I.i |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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(Sampson and Gregory enter the town square.)
Sampson: A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
Gregory: The quarrel is between our masters & us, their men.
(Montague servants enter.)
Sampson: Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
(Sampson bites his thumb at them.)
Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at me sir?
Sampson: No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb, sir.
Gregory: Do you quarrel, sir?
Abraham: Quarrel, sir? No, sir.
Sampson: I serve a better man than you.
Abraham: You lie.
(They fight. Benvolio and Tybalt enter.)
Benvolio: (entering) Part, fools, put up your swords!
Tybalt: Turn thee, Benvolio, and look upon thy death.
Benvolio: I do but keep the peace.
Tybalt: I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee!
(They fight, Prince enters and separates them)
Prince: Three civil brawls have disturb’d the quiet of our streets. If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. Once more, on pain of death, all men depart!
(Exeunt all but Benvolio. Romeo enters)
Benvolio: Good morrow, cousin.
Romeo: What fray was here? Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love. Ah me, sad hours seem long.
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? In love?
Romeo: Out of love. Out of her favor where I am in love.
Benvolio: She has sworn she will live chaste?
Romeo: She hath. It is a huge waste of such beauty.
Benvolio: Be ruled by me; forget to think of her by giving liberty unto thine eyes; examine other beauties. |
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ACT I.ii – Sunday Afternoon in Capulet’s House & Verona Square |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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(Exeunt. Paris and Capulet enter)
Paris: What say thee of my proposition?
Capulet: My child is yet a stranger in the world / Let two more summers wither in their pride / Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Paris: Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Capulet: Woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart / Come to the old accustomed feast I hold this night. (Gives guest list to his servant) Go find those persons out whose names are written here.
(Paris and Capulet exit. Servant goes outside and runs into Benvolio & Romeo.)
Servant: Sir, can you read?
Romeo: Stay fellow, I can read. (Reads guest list). Whose house?
Servant: My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine! (Exits)
Benvolio: At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s / sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest. Compare her face with some that I shall show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. |
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ACT I.iii – Sunday Afternoon in Juliet’s Room |
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Lady Capulet: Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.
Nurse: What, ladybird! Where’s the girl? What, Juliet! [enter Juliet]
Juliet: Madam, I am here. What is your will?
Lady Capulet: Nurse, give leave awhile, we must talk in secret. (Nurse begins to leave). Nurse, come back again. Thou know’st my daughter’s of a pretty age. She’s not fourteen.
Nurse: How long is it now to *Lammas-tide?
Lady Capulet: A **fortnight and odd days.
Nurse: Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she were of an age. Susan is with God now. My husband – God be with his soul – took up Juliet and said “Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; Wilt thou not, Jule?’ and, by my holidame, / the pretty wretch left crying and said ‘Ay’.
Lady Capulet: Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.
Nurse: Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but laugh!
Juliet: I pray thee, nurse.
Nurse: Peace, I have done. If I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
Lady Capulet: Tell me, daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?
Juliet: It is an honor I dream not of.
Lady Capulet: Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you ladies of esteem are made already mothers. The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. Could you love the gentleman?
Juliet: I'll look to like, but no more deep will I indart mine eye than your consent give strength to make it fly.
Lady Capulet: Juliet, Count Paris is waiting. (exits)
Nurse: Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days!
* Lammas-tide = the Harvest festival
**fortnight = two weeks
***disposition = feelings |
WATCH THIS POEM ON “Black Woman (Motherhood)” by Georgia Douglas Johnson. Georgia Douglas Johnson is a Black poet during the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s) who like other Black artists during this period, used her work to highlight the Black experience. In “Black Woman (Motherhood),” the poet recognizes that having children would mean bringing them into a world where they’d be treated as inferior. Read the poem to identify how she decides to handle that issue. Do you think she makes the right decision?
QUESTION 3: Who do you think acts as a better mother: the speaker in the poem “Black Woman (Motherhood) or Lady Capulet? Write a thesis statement and then explain your points. Remember, you must include at least 2 reasons why one is the better mother in your thesis statement.
Lady Capulet encourages her daughter Juliet to go and get married and enter the real world. While the speaker in the poem is trying to protect her child from the world and the cruel men that are in that world.
This is because Lady Capulet is not as concerned about Juliet’s feelings towards marriage and having children.
While, the speaker in the poem “Black Woman” is much more caring towards her child.
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ACT I.iv - Sunday Evening/Night in Verona's Townsquare. |
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Watch Mercutio give his Queen Mab speech.
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ACT I.v – Sunday Night at Capulet’s Party |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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(Romeo and his friends enter Capulet’s party in masks.)
Romeo: (seeing Juliet) What lady's that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight? I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. (Crosses to Juliet)
Tybalt: This, by his voice, should be a Montague. To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
Capulet: Young Romeo, is it? Let him alone; take no note of him.
Tybalt: I’ll not endure him.
Capulet: He shall be endured! Am I the master here, or you? You’ll make a muting among my guests! Be quiet, or I’ll make you quiet.
Tybalt: I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall / Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
(Tybalt exits)
Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devotion shows in this; / For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, / And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; / They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
[They kiss.]
(Nurse enters)
Nurse: Your mother craves a word with you. (Exit Juliet)
Romeo: What is her mother?
Nurse: Her mother is the lady of the house.
Romeo: Is she a Capulet?
(Exit Romeo, enter Juliet)
Juliet: Go, ask his name!
Nurse: (asks someone and returns) His name is Romeo, and a Montague. / The only son of your great enemy.
Juliet: My only love sprung from my only hate! |
CHOOSE TO WATCH AT LEAST ONE MOVIE VERSION OF ACT I.v.
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (1996)
QUESTION 4: What is something that the movie version changes from the play? How does the director’s decision change how the audience views the characters and/or conflict in the play?
QUESTION 5: Are Romeo and Juliet wrong for wanting to explore their new relationship over pledging their allegiance to their families? Write a thesis statement and then explain your points. Remember, you must include at least 2 reasons why in your thesis statement.
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ACT II.ii – Very Late Sunday Night to Early Morning Monday, Juliet’s Balcony |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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(Romeo wonders around the Capulet’s gardens and finds Juliet standing on her balcony.)
Romeo: What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the son!
Juliet: Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / What's Montague? It is not hand, nor foot, / Nor any other part belonging to a man. / That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet / Romeo, doff thy name, / And for that name, which is no part of thee,/ Take all myself.
(Romeo comes out of hiding.)
Romeo: Henceforth I will never be Romeo.
Juliet: If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. |
CHOOSE TO WATCH AT LEAST ONE MOVIE VERSION OF ACT II.ii.
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (1996)
QUESTION #6: In the play, Romeo and Juliet don’t kiss in this scene, but they kiss a lot in the movie. How does this change make us view the two teenagers? And do you think the directors made a good choice by adding more “romance” to the play?
I think the directors made a good decision. The romance between Romeo and Juliet in the movies make their relationship seem so much more intimate. Also it seems more realistic this way since in most teen relationships couples act the same way as Romeo and Juliet in the movie.
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ACT II.iii - Early Monday Morning at Friar Lawrence's church garden. |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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Romeo: My heart’s dear love is set / On the fair daughter of rich Capulet/
Friar Lawrence - What a change is here! / Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Romeo: I pray thee, chide not. Her I love now / and love for love, allow; The other did not so.
Friar Lawrence: In one respect I'll thy assistant be; / For this alliance may so happy prove, / To turn your households' rancour to pure love. |
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ACT II.iv - Monday morning in Verona's Town Square. |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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Nurse: Tell me ye, if you would lead her in a fool's paradise.
Romeo: I protest unto thee. Bid her come to Friar Laurence's cell be shrived and married.
Nurse: God in Heaven bless. |
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ACT II.v - Monday early afternoon in Juliet's room. |
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Nurse: Have you got leave today?
Juliet: I have.
Nurse: Then go to Friar Laurence's cell. There waits a husband to make you a wife.
WATCH ACT II.v.
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ACT II.vi - Monday early afternoon in Friar Lawrence's private chamber. |
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WATCH MOVIE VERSION OF ACT II.vi.
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Question 7: Do you think Friar Lawrence and Nurse were wise to help Romeo and Juliet get married secretly?
May 27
Isabel R
Isabel R
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I do not agree with the marriage of Romeo and Juliet because it happened the day after they met.
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But, I think that it was not wise of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse to help them get secretly married. This is because if their families found out then the Nurse and Friar Lawrence would be held accountable for letting Romeo and Juliet.
May 27
cristal v
cristal v
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I think Friar Lawrence and the Nurse were wise to help Romeo and JUliet get married secretly.
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Although many people might think it was too soon for them to get married i think it was a good idea. They are both in love and young, it was a risk but it was a risk they were willing to take. |
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ACT III.i – Monday late afternoon in Town Square |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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**Remember, Tybalt is angry with Romeo because Romeo crashed his family’s party.**
Benvolio: I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. / The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, / And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl.
Mercutio: Thou art as hot a jack in thy mood as any in Italy. / And yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling!
Benvolio: By my head, here come the Capulets.
Mercutio: By my heel, I care not.
(Tybalt and Capulets enter.)
Tybalt: Gentlemen, good e’en. A word with one of you.
Mercutio: Make it a word and a blow.
Tybalt: Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.
Mercutio: Consort! What, dost thou make us musicians? [Points to his sword.] Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s that shall make you dance!
Benvolio: Either withdraw unto some private place, and reason calmly of your grievances, or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us.
Mercutio: Let them gaze. I will not budge for no man’s pleasure.
Tybalt: (Romeo enters) Ah, peace be with you, sir, here comes my man. Romeo, thou art a villain.
Romeo: Tybalt, I see thou knowest me not.
Tybalt: Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.
Romeo: I do protest, I love thee better than thou canst imagine / Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. / And so, good Capulet - which name I tender as dearly as my own – be satisfied.
Mercutio: (drawing sword) Tybalt, will you walk?
Tybalt: (drawing sword) I am for you.
Romeo: Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up! (Mercutio and Tybalt fight.) Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio!
(Tybalt goes under Romeo's arm and stabs Mercutio. Tybalt and friends leave.)
Mercutio: I am hurt. A plague on both your houses!
Benvolio: What, art thou hurt?
Mercutio: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. (to Romeo) Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
Romeo: I thought all for the best.
Mercutio: A plague on both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.
(Exit Mercutio and Benvolio.)
Romeo: The prince’s relative and my very friend, hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf; my reputation stained with Tybalt’s slander – Tybalt, that for an hour hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath softened valor’s steel!
Benvolio: (reenters) Brave Meructio’s dead! Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.
Romeo: Alive in triumph and Mercutio slain! Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. (Tybalt reenters) Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
(Tybalt and Romeo fight. Romeo kills Tybalt.)
Benvolio: Romeo, away, be gone!
Romeo: O, I am fortune’s fool!
(Romeo exits. Capulets, Montagues, citizens, and Prince enter.)
Prince: Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
Benvolio: There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, that slew your cousin, brave Mercutio.
Lady Capulet: O, my brother’s child! Benvolio is a kinsman to the Monatgue; affection makes him false, he speaks not true. I beg for justice which thou, prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.
Prince: Immediately we do exile him hence. My cousin doth lie a-bleeding. I’ll punish you with so strong a fine that you shall all repent the loss of mine. Let Romeo hence in haste [to Mantua], else, when he’s found, that hour is his last. |
Question #8: Who’s actions to do agree with most in this scene and why? (Mercutio, Romeo, or Tybalt)
Tybalt came in frustrated and Mercutio drew his sword thus instigating a physical battle and Tybalt hit him under Romeo’s arm. Romeo decided to kill Tybalt because he had killed Mercutio but this wasn’t right because he used revenge and faught violence with violence. Tybalt, though he came in frustrated he was forced into battle when Mercutio drew his sword.
The directors made a good choice by adding more romance to the play because it allows us to see how invested they are in their relationship, especially since their families are rivals.
Tybalt was frustrated and angry when he came looking for Romeo. He had a reason to be mad at Romeo. Which was that he crashed the Capulet party and then he found out that Romeo was in love and with his cousin Juliet. Romeo tried to walk away but Mercutio just jumped in instead of walking away as well. And after the fight with Mercutio and Tybalt Romeo wanted revenge. So he was just fighting fire with fire.
As enemies, the Montagues and Capulets are not supposed to be crashing each other’s parties. It will only cause conflict as it did in Act 3 Scene 1. I understand Tybalt’s frustration because they were not supposed to be there and the Montagues should have left since they were not welcome. Also, Mercutio drew his sword first and he is a Montague so, they started the fight.
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ACT III.ii – Monday late afternoon in Juliet’s room |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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Nurse: We are undone, lady, we are undone! Alack the day, he’s gone, he’s killed, he’s dead! O Tybalt, the best friend I had!
Juliet: O break, my heart, poor bankrupt, break at once! Is Romeo slaughtered, or is Tybalt dead?
Nurse: Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished.
Juliet: O God, did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?
Nurse: It did, it did, alas the day! It did.
Juliet: Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! / Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! / O! that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace.
Nurse: There’s no trust, / No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured, / All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Shame come to Romeo!
Juliet: Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish! He was not born to shame. O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
Nurse: Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?
Juliet: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain, and Tybalt’s dead that would have slain my husband. O, find him! Give this ring to my true knight and bid him come to take his last farewell. |
QUESTION #9: How does Juliet feel about Romeo now? Do you agree with her choice in loyalty? Why or why not?
This is because Tybalt was Juliet’s cousin and she had met Romeo the night before which makes Romeo practically a stranger. I feel like her loyalty should have been with her family over anything/anyone else.
She is sad to find out that Tybalt is dead, but she is glad Romeo is still alive afterall he is her husband. I agree with her choice in loyalty, Romeo is her husband and she loves him so much, Romeo did kill TYbalt but only because Tybalt wanted to fight him first.
Though Romeo is her husand, they have not been together long while Tybalt was her cousin who she has known all her life. I believe it naive to go for Romeo in this matter rather to someone closer to her.
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ACT III.iv – Monday night in Capulet’s house |
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Paris: These times of woe afford no time to woo. Commend me to your daughter.
Capulet: Paris, I think she will be ruled in all respects by me. Nay, I doubt it not. What day is this?
Paris: Monday, my lord.
Capulet: Well, Wednesday is too soon. A Thursday tell her, she shall be married. What say you to Thursday?
Paris: I would that Thursday were tomorrow. |
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ACT IV.i - Tuesday afternoon in Friar Lawrence's cell |
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*Pay attention to Juliet’s use of verbal irony, or saying one thing but meaning something else.*
Paris: “Come to you to make confession to this father?”
Juliet: “To answer that, I should confess to you.”
Paris: “Do not deny to him that you love me.”
Juliet: “I will confess to you that I love him.”
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Paris: “Thy face is mine, and thou hast sland’red it.”
Juliet: “It may be so, for it is not mine own.”
WATCH MOVIE VERSION OF Act IV.i.
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
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Question #12: Which adult provides the best advice: Nurse or Friar Lawrence? Explain why.
They both had good intentions and helped Romeo and Juliet. But the nurse was definitely looking out for Juliet. She was being logical and helped her by giving her advice that is useful but she also cared for Juliets happiness. Which is why she helped Romeo and Juliet.
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ACT IV.ii - Tuesday evening in Capulet’s house |
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Capulet: How now my headstrong! Where have you been?
Juliet: To church where I have learned to repent the sin of disobedient opposition. Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.
Capulet: We’ll go to church tomorrow! |
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ACT IV.iii - Tuesday night in Juliet’s room |
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Watch:
Question #13: Juliet questions whether Friar’s plan will work, and even wonders if the potion is meant to kill her and cover up the fact he married them secretly. If you were Juliet, would you completely trust the potion Friar gave to you, or would you have doubts as well? |
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ACT IV.iv & v – Wednesday Morning in Juliet’s room |
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Watch:
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ACT V.ii – Thursday Evening in Friar’s church |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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Friar Lawrence: Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?
Friar John: The searchers of the town, suspecting that we both were in a house where the infectious plague did reign, would not let us go forth.
Friar Lawrence: Who bore my letter then to Romeo?
Friar John: I could not send it – here it is again.
Friar Lawrence: Unhappy fortune! The letter was of dear import and the neglecting it may do much danger. Now must I to the monument alone. Within 3 hours will Juliet awake. But I will write again to Mantua, and keep her at my cell till Romeo come.
Question #15: Who do you blame for this: Friar Lawrence, Friar John, or fate? Why?
No paragraph-level conversations.
Start one.
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ACT V.iii – Thursday night in the Capulet’s Vault (where they keep dead bodies) |
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If you all read together, who read which roles? |
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Both Romeo and Paris are at the vault to mourn Juliet.
Romeo: Take this letter. See thou deliver it to my lord and father. Do not interrupt me in my course. Hence, be gone. (Romeo goes into the vault)
Balthasar: His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. (Hides by entrance of vault)
Paris: That is the banished Montague that hath murdered my love's cousin! It is this grief that killed my fair Juliet. (confronts Romeo) Condemned villain, I do arrest thee. Obey and go with me, for thou must die.
Romeo: I must indeed, and therefore came I here. Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee! (They fight. Romeo stabs Paris)
Paris: O, I am slain! Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. (dies)
Romeo: This is Mercutio’s cousin, noble County Paris! I think he told me Paris should have married Juliet. (Lays Paris beside Juliet)(to Juliet) O my love, death has no power over your beauty. Crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. Here’s to my love! (He drinks the poison). Apothecary, thy drugs are quick.
Thus, with a kiss, I die. (Kisses Juliet and dies)
Friar Lawrence: (enters) What blood is this? The lady stirs.
Juliet: (wakes up) Where is my Romeo?
Friar Lawrence: I hear some noise. A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our plans. Com away. Thy husband lies dead, and Paris too. I’ll hide you among a sisterhood of holy nuns. The watch is coming. Come, Juliet. I dare no longer stay.
Juliet: Go, I will not away. (Friar Lawrence runs away.) Poison hath been his timeless end! O, selfish one, drunk it all, and left no friendly drop for me? I will kiss thy lips. (kisses Romeo). Thy lips are warm! (Hears watchmen outside.) I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger. (stabs herself and dies)
(Prince, Watchmen, Capulets, and Lord Montague arrive.)
Prince: What fear is this which startles in our ears? Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
Montague: My wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath. What further woe conspires against my age?
Friar Lawrence: I married them, and their secret marriage-day was Tybalt’s doomsday. She came to me, and with wild looks bid me devise some mean to rid her from this second marriage. I gave her a sleeping potion which wrought on her the form of death. When I came, here untimely lay the noble Paris and true Romeo dead. She would not go with me, but did violence on herself. Her nurse is aware of their marriage too.
Prince: (gets letter from Balthasar) This letter doth make good the friar’s words.
Capulet: O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
Montague: I can give thee more. I will make Juilet a statue in pure gold.
Capulet: As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie.
Prince: Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Question #16: Other than Romeo or Juliet, which character do you blame for their part in Romeo and Juliet’s death?
May 26
Friar Lawrence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death as well because he was more concerned about protecting himself which led to the destruction of two young lovers.
May 27
This is because they are the heads of both the households and they could have ended the feud a long time ago. But, because of their blinding hatred for each other, they allowed it to continue and it resulted in the death of their children.
May 27
If the feud between the Montagues and Capulets never happened or ended before Romeo and Juliet this would have never happened. They should have put their differences aside and stop the feud. Also again i mostly blame Friar Lawrence because he shouldve thought out better the plan.
Question #17: If you’re the Prince, which characters would you punish and what punishment would you give them?
May 26
Vanesa L
Vanesa L
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I would've punished Friar Lawrence. I think he is most to blame and had a big part in Romeo and Juliet's death and romance. I would've given him the same punishment as the Prince gave Romeo for killing Tybalt. I would send him away for faking Juliet dying
May 27
I would do this because the apothecary had no right to give that poison to Romeo he shouldve said no and told Romeo to leave. I would punish Friar because he was the main cause of both deaths. I would send the apothecary to jail for a good amount of time, and death to Friar because he was the cause of two innocent lovers.
Question #18: Watch at least two different endings. Which ending do you prefer and why?
No paragraph-level conversations.
Start one.
West Side Story (1961) – Instead of Romeo & Juliet, it’s Tony & Maria.
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (1996)
Question #19: Romeo & Juliet is a common text for all 9th graders to read. Do you think it should be? Why or why not?
No paragraph-level conversations.
Start one.
May 27
Isabel R
Isabel R
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Yes, I think that the story of Romeo and Juliet is a common text for many students to read.
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This is because the story is a very popular work of Shakespeare. Although I think that all 9th graders should read it, there are also many other plays and short stories that are not as common and should be read as well. The reason I say this is because many of us students already know the story.
May 27
I think Romeo and Juliet should be a common text for all 9th graders to read because it is filled with drama and action and many people like that. I also think this because Shakespeare is a little hard to read and its good to read something that will challenge you.
Question #20: Watch the Modern-Day Romeo and Juliet. What do you think about their love story, and is love worth dying for?
May 27
Their story was very sad because all the couple wanted to do was to escape the war and be together. Also the part when the lady puts her arms around her boyfriend was super sad. I think love is worth dying for because when you love someone all you see is that person, you dont see a life without them.
May 26
Vanesa L
Vanesa L
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I think their love story is pretty different from Romeo and Juliet but I see why people compare them. I think that love is not always worth dying for. We all need love in our lives but when one love dies we always find love again. I think it depends.
May 27
Isabel R
Isabel R
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Although the families in the Modern- Day Romeo and Juliet, did not have a constant feud, both stories are very similar.
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I think that you shouldn’t have to die in order to love someone. But, at the same time not everyone is able to love who they choose freely because of how the world is.
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Isha reads as Benvolio and Prince, Alvaro reads as Romeo and Mercutio, and Isabel reads as Tybalt.
Isha read as the narrator, Alvaro read as the nurse, and Isabel read as Juliet.
I do not agree with Juliet’s choice of loyalty because she does not know Romeo on a personal level. I feel as though their love is built upon lust rather than true love. Her loyalty lies with a man she has only known for two days then her relative she’s known her whole life. I don’t agree with this because it seems insensible and unreasonable.
Since the Montagues and Capulets are enemies, their parents should have let them get married and live their life because they were happy.
The nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris for Juliet’s sake and well being while Friar Lawrence tells Juliet to take the potion and kill herself the night before their wedding, which will do nothing but cause a deeper problem for Juliet and the Capulets.
Romeo ordered Apothecary to give him the poison,especially since Apothecary is a servant, he didn’t have a choice but to give it to him. Apothecary did tell Romeo the consequences of carrying the poison so, it was up to Romeo to make that decision.
Friar Lawrence is to blame for this because he gave Juliet a potion and Romeo now has a poisonous Potion, that Friar doesn’t know about, but he knows Romeo is coming so, it was his plan.
I wouldn’t punish them with death but I would arrest them fora few months.
Although Juliet was dead, Romeo’s kiss would have saved her, but Romeo didn’t know that. Friar Lawrence did not tell him that either, he allowed Romeo to believe Juliet was dead, which resulted in him killing himself also. When Juliet woke up from Romeo’s kiss, she saw that Romeo was dead and killed herself permanently.
Baz Luhrmann’s version of Romeo & Juliet is more engaging and it has more emotion than Zeffirelli’s version.
Romeo & Juliet should be a text for all freshmens to read because it is not like a regular text you read. This text involves a lot of time, thought, annotating in order to get a clear understanding, which I think is good for students. Also, it involves a lot of engagement, which is important when reading a text.
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