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Shakespeare: The Play's the Thing!

Romeo and Juliet - Click each Tab

Romeo and Juliet

After the activity, consider: 

  • With your group, attempt to put the lines in order

  • What might Romeo and Juliet be about?

Social Offenses

Discuss your rankings with the class. Based on these ideas, what else might  Romeo and Juliet be about?

Prologue: Complete the Prologue activity as a class. 

 

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Characters

Character Map

  • Click this LINK and scroll to the character list. 

  • Create your own character map using the information about the characters linked above.