6.4 Romeo & Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2: A rose by any other name . . .
Learning Intentions In this section you will … ✓ Read a famous scene from Shakespeare’s play Romeo & Juliet. ✓ Discover the role of set and backdrop in the staging of a play.
Before Reading Think Pair Share
Romeo & Juliet focuses on two young people who fall in love and discover a major obstacle to being together: their families are at war with one another. Think: Brainstorm three obstacles that might face young people in modern Ireland who fall in love.
Pair: Share these obstacles with a partner. Share: Discuss the possible obstacles with your class. Reading 18
Read the extract which follows. It features the title characters from Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. The setting is late at night, after a party hosted by Juliet’s parents, Lord and Lady Capulet. Romeo (from the Montague family) and Juliet (from the Capulet family) first met at the party. They immediately fell for each other, but quickly realised that they belong to rival – even warring – families. As the extract begins, Romeo is wandering in the orchard of the Capulets’ house when Juliet appears, above, on a balcony overlooking the orchard.
