Treading the Boards: Act I, Scene 1
This period we look at Romeo and Juliet as a play – examining the features of the text that are typical of what you’d expect from a play text – intended to be viewed rather than read. The attached presentation explores these features, provides a guide to annotation and contains an excerpt of a filmed interpretation to demonstrate how much of a play’s interpretation is left to the actors and director. Your...
Iambic Pentameter
In today’s lesson we explored the notion of meter. We discovered that there is an underlying rhythm to a great deal of Shakespeare’s drama. A quick gallop around the room on our virtual Iambic horses lead us to discover that the “unstress/stress” pattern can be applied to the whole of the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. In future we will examine the presence of this meter and what effect it may have in great detail – but currently it is...
Romeo and Juliet: Analysis of the Prologue
Today we’re pulling all the analysis of the meaning and metre of the Prologue together by writing a paragraph explaining what impact Shakespeare’s language choices have on us as audience members, hearing the prologue for the first time. Attached is the worksheet from today that contains some useful support material: useful terms and some sentence starters. Download (PDF,...
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