Exploration, Analysis and Revision b. Why is it surprising? Describe what happens.


The Montagues and the Capulets are in a deadly feud. In spite of that, Romeo Montague went to the Capulet party. Now he comes back alone, in the dead of night, risking his life by sneaking into their garden, just to see his ‘bright angel’, Juliet


He looks up at her and says ‘It is the east, and Juliet is the sun’. She says, ‘If they do see thee, they will murder thee.’


Now a Montague and a Capulet have fallen in love. They tell each other that they would do anything or go anywhere to be together. He says he would go to the ends of the earth, ‘the farthest sea’, to find her. She tells her ‘sweet Montague’ that her love is as deep as the sea and she will marry him the next day if he will arrange it.


The Nurse calls Juliet away from the window. Romeo promises to arrange their wedding for the very next day and send word to her.


SAMPLE 8


Choose a moment in a Shakespearean play you have studied when something important happens. Title of play


'Romeo and Juliet' a. What happens at your chosen moment? Give your answer in one sentence.


When Romeo hears that Juliet has died, he goes to an apothecary to buy poison so that he can go to the Capulet tomb and die beside her. b. Why is it important? Explain your answer.


It is important because in fact, Juliet is not really dead. Friar Laurence gave her a drug to fake death so that Romeo could come to the tomb, find her awake, and secretly take her away to live with him in Mantua.


Unfortunately, the messenger who was to give him the letter explaining this plan was stopped from leaving Verona. This terrible bad luck will cause the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. So the story will end in total disaster.


c. Imagine you are directing a performance of the play and you have the freedom to stage your chosen moment in any way you like. Explain what you would do to make the moment interesting for the audience.


I would make this scene interesting in the set design, the Apothecary’s make- up and costume, the lighting, and Romeo’s acting. Romeo describes the dingy, miserable shop of horrors, filled with stuffed animals like tortoise, alligator and fish. I would even fill the theatre with a musty smell for this scene. The backdrop should be raggy, ancient, stained brown curtains.


Romeo says the Apothecary is dressed in ‘tattered’ clothes. He should be skinny, poor and hungry, with long, pointy fingernails. His skin should look dirty and his hair long and straggly.


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