|
Titel
17
|
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
This theme works with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a love tragedy. Students will work with Shakespeare's style of language in terms of structure (prose, blank verse, rhyming verse) and style (imagery, puns, banter etc.). Students will also read Sonnet 18, both to learn about the sonnet form, but also to put into perspective to the play's theme of love. In addition, students will learn about the Shakespearean theatre (the Globe, the actors etc.) and the tragedy format.
Students will do group work presentations. There are three different group types, 1: Background research, 2: Analysis of an excerpt, 3: Performing a scene excerpt.
Group 1: Background information - William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre
Group 2: Analysis, act 2, scene 4
Group 3: Perform Act 3, scene 1, ll. 1-104
Group 4: Background information - the tragedy and Romeo and Juliet
Group 5: Analysis, Act 4, scenes 1-3
Group 6: Perform Act 5, scene 3, ll. 1-73(-120)
Students will also write individual essays, either on a specific scene or multiple scenes.
Material:
Copy: Oxford School Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (2008) ISBN 978-0-19-832166-8
Scenes read:
Prologue
Act 1, scenes 1-2
Act 2, scenes 1, 3-4
Act 3, scene 1, 3
Act 4, scenes 1-3
Act 5, scenes 1, 3
Sonnet 18
Movie: Romeo + Juliet (1996) directed by Baz Luhrmann
Mock exam: Act 5, scene 1
Additional content:
- How to read Shakespeare
- How to analyse Shakespeare
- Hierarchical overview of characters (social rank)
- The Melancholic Hero @https://animepapa.com/the-melancholic-hero-examining-common-tropes-and-their-subversion-in-psychological-thrillers/ (visited 3/1-2026)
- The Age of Shakespeare (group presentation)
- Tragedy description (group presentation)
|