I'm standing there

On a balcony in summer air

See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd
And say, "Hello"
Little did I know
That you were Romeo, you were throwing
pebbles
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you, "Please don't go, " and I said
Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say "Yes"
 ROMEO AND
JULIET
A Play by William Shakespeare
 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BIRTH DATE: April 23, 1564
(Stratford-upon-Avon, United
Kingdom)
DEATH DATE: April 23, 1616
(Stratford-upon-Avon, United
Kingdom)
EDUCATION: King's New School
DID YOU KNOW?
☻Some historians have questioned
whether William Shakespeare actually
existed, considering the scant
evidence on him.
☻At the age of 18, he married Anne
Hathaway (26 year old).
☻They had 3 children (Susanna, Judith
and Hamnet).
☻ By the early 1590s, William Shakespeare was a
managing partner in the Lord Chamberlain's
Men, a popular theater company.
☻ In 1599 Shakespeare and his business partners
started their own theater company called the
Globe.
☻ He is said to have written around 37 plays and
154 sonnets.
☻ He is also known to have contributed over two
thousand words to the English language.
In Shakespeare’s time:
☻ Theaters were sometimes closed to try to stop
the threat of plague.
☻ All of the actors were men.
☻ You could get into the Globe theater for a penny,
and stand during the whole play (groundlings) ,
or pay a bit more for a seat.
☻ If the play wasn’t good or exciting, the audience
throw things at the actors.
 ROMEO AND JULIET
♥ based on Arthur Brooke’s long narrative
poem, The Tragicall Historye of Romeus
and Juliet (1562).
♥ similar to Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe, in
which two lovers from rival families plan to
meet in secret, but through a
misunderstanding, end up killing
themselves.
 ROMEO
AND JULIET
ACT 1
• The Montagues and Capulets are
rival families who regularly fight each
other.
• The Prince warns Lord Capulet and
Lord Montague that if there is another
fight they shall pay for it with their lives.
• Romeo is in love with Rosaline.
• Paris wants to marry Juliet but Lord
Capulet wants him to wait for two
years.
• There is going to be a huge ball at the
Capulet’s house.
• Romeo and Benvolio plan to go to the
ball even though they are not invited.
• Lord Capulet allows Romeo to stay at his
ball, showing a much more relaxed attitude
to the 'grudge' than his nephew Tybalt, who
vows revenge on Romeo.
• Romeo and Juliet meet and share an
instant connection.
• Romeo and Juliet both learn who the other
one is.
ACT 2
• Romeo still wants to see Juliet even
though he now knows she is a
Capulet.
• Juliet and Romeo are in love and are
willing to set aside family loyalty to be
together.
• They plan to get married the next day.
• Romeo meets Friar Laurence and tells
him his plan of marrying Juliet.
• Friar Laurence agrees, believing the
marriage might help end the feud
between the two families.
• Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel.
• The nurse speaks with Romeo, she
agrees to help them.
• Romeo and Juliet meet in secret at Friar
Laurence’s cell and get married.
• Friar Laurence is their ally and the only
person, apart from the Nurse, who knows
they are married.
ACT 3
• Tybalt arrives looking for Romeo but
Romeo refuses to fight with him.
• A fight breaks out between Mercutio and
Tybalt which ends with Mercutio being
stabbed after Romeo gets in the way.
• In revenge for his friend’s death, Romeo
seeks out Tybalt and kills him.
• Romeo banishes from Verona’s walls rather
than being killed for what he has done, as
the Prince proclaimed would happen.
• Juliet is angry at Romeo for killing Tybalt,
but then feels sorry for hating him.
• Romeo hides at Friar Laurence’s cell.
• Friar convinces Romeo to run away to
Mantua while things settle down in Verona.
• Paris once again tries to get Lord
Capulet to agree to the wedding even
though Tybalt has just died.
• Lord Capulet suggests for them to get
married in three-days time.
• Juliet refuses but Lord Capulet
threatens to disown her.
• Juliet decides to visit Friar Laurence.
ACT 4
• Juliet threatens to kill herself if the Friar can
not help her.
• The Friar devises a plan where Juliet will
take a potion that will make her appear
dead.
• Friar Laurence plans to let Romeo know the
truth via a message so he can collect her
from the Capulet family tomb.
• Juliet returns to the family home and begs
forgiveness from her father.
• Lord Capulet decides to move the date of
the wedding to the very next day.
• Juliet is forced to take the potion a night
early and immediately appears dead.
• The nurse discovers the body of Juliet and
exclaims that she is dead.
ACT 5
• Romeo discovers Juliet has died from his
servant Balthazar and is devastated.
• He buys some poison from an apothecary
and returns to Verona to visit Juliet’s tomb.
• Friar Laurence discovers that Romeo did
not get the message letting him know that
Juliet isn’t really dead.
• Paris visits Juliet’s body to mourn her death.
• Romeo kills Paris although he doesn’t
realize who it is at the time.
• Romeo goes to see Juliet’s body and takes
the poison and dies.
• Friar Laurence finds Juliet just as she is
waking up but she refuses to come with him.
• Juliet sees Romeo’s dead body.
• She is devastated so takes Romeo’s
dagger and kills herself.
• The Prince arrives and discovers the
dead bodies in the tomb and the
Capulets see Juliet with a knife wound.
• Capulet and Montague agree to end the
feud that has taken so many lives.
MAKING CONNECTIONS
 You will be grouped into five (5).
 Choose one question word to
discuss: WHAT, WHERE, WHEN,
WHO and WHY.
 WHAT is the reason why the two families are feuding?
Explain.
 WHO are the characters in the story? Make a character
diagram.
 WHERE does the story take place? Make a sketch and
show it to the class.
 WHEN does the story take place? Indicate the physical
setting such as time of day, season, weather or
temperature, type of building, indoors or outdoors,
objects, colors, imagery (five senses) if available.
 WHY does Lady Capulet want Juliet to marry Paris?