THE TRAGEDY OF

ROMEO & JULIET

Josiah Gage, Ricky Gzz, Jackie Zambrano & Elas Campos
 READING STRATEGY: READING SHAKESPEAREAN
DRAMA

Skakespeares English is sometimes hard for todays readers to understand.

Read the background notes and the summary notes to get important
information about the structure and main conflict in the paly.
Use the footnotes to understand the meanings of unfamiliar words and unusual
sentence structures.
Restate in your own words lines from an individual character or a dialogue
between characters.
Keep track of major events or changes in the plot in the order in which they
take place in each scene.
 Literary Card
William Shakespeares Life &
Contributions
Name: William Shakespeare
Motto: To be, or not to be
Occupation: Writer poet,
playwright, and actor.

Masterpiece: Romeo & Juliet

Other Works: Macbeth
Influences: Elizabethan

dramatists

Type of writing: Narrative

Style: Drama
Themes: Tragedy, Love
Awards: Award of Excellence
from The International Center
in New York.
Death: 23 April 1616

 TRAGEDY

A tragedy is not going to end with the words and they all lived happily even
after. Shakespearean tragedies are dramas that en in disastermost often
deathfor the main characters.

Figurative language: language that communicates beyond the literal meaning

of words.
Dramatic Irony: when the audience know more than the characters.
Soliloquy: A long speech given by a character alone on stage.
ROME & JULIET
Prologue and Act 2, Scene 2
 GENERAL INFO
Time Place

The 14th century Verona and Mantua (northern

Italy)
Cast

Chorus (narrator)
Romeo (boy from the Montague family)
Juliet (girl from the Capulet family)
Nurse (Juliets personal servant)
 The narrator tells the audience that two families in Verona have been
fighting each other.
The story begins with Romeo talking to himself. Then he sees a light
through Juliets window. He describes the beauty of Juliet. They both start
to talk often with each other.
 Romeo hears Juliet talking about him to herself. She seems upset that he
is Montague, a member of an enemy family.
Romeo speaks to Juliet. He says he will change his name if she will love
him. Juliet recognizes Romeos voice, but she fears his family knows
about Romeos presence in their house.
 They both start to asking themselves about their relationship.
Romeo leaves the house and they agree to see each other another day.
 VOCABULARY
The word motivate is a verb that means to cause someone to take actions.
The word resolve is a verb that means to decide or to figurate out, solve, or make clear.