Honors English Romeo and Juliet

When was he born and when did he die

April 23 1564 - April 23 1616

Renaissance Period

The time period he lived in

Elizabethan Age, what is important about it, years

When he started his career, Queen Elizabeth loved art so that helped him, 1558 - 1603

Lord Chamberlain’s Men

Early 1590s Shakespeare began acting in and writing plays for that theater company, was sponsored by 2 men who both held the office of Lord Chamberlain

theater during Shakespeare’s time

London was the center of the Elizabethan stage, they did really well because it attracted both rich and poor

The Globe Theatre

Big building where the plays were held, only boys acted so all female roles were played by men, burned down

Where did he come from?

Stratford-on-Avon

How many plays did he write

At least 37

How is the plague relevant

That is when he started writing poems and plays

Blank Verse

What he wrote his plays in, unstressed - stressed

Allusion

A reference to something that the audience is expected to know. Example: A famous person

Pun

A joke that comes from a play on words

Setting of Romeo and Juliet

Capulet

Juliets family

Montague

Romeos family

Benvolio

Gentle peace loving man (Romeos cousin and friend)

Mercutio

Enthusiastic hot headed man who is a friend of romeo

Balthasar

Loyal friend and servant to romeo

Prologue

Introductory scene in a drama. What Mrs Krueger would read to us at the beginning of a paragraph

Tragedy

A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a tragic hero or other characters (When mercutio yells a plague on both houses)

Tragic Hero

Protagonist or central character who usually dies

Tragic Flaw

Error in judgement on the part of the tragic hero (when Romeo and Juliet are constantly denying others good advice)

Protagonist

A main character who is involved in the central conflict

Antagonist

Opposing force (Character) to the protagonist (Main character)

Foil

A contrasting character to another

Soliloquy

A speech given by a character alone on stage, when the character speaks their thought aloud

Aside

A short speech directed to the audience that is not heard by the other characters

Dramatic Irony

The viewers/readers know something the characters dont

Comic relief

A humorous scene during a sad/dramatic one to lighten the scene

Sonnet

A lyric poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, 3 quatrains and a final couplet

Rhyme sceme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Couplet

Rhyming pair of lines at the end of a iambic pentameter

Metaphor

A thing that directly relates 2 unalike things

Simile

Directly compares 2 distinct things