martes, 18 de enero de 2011

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, and Sonnets.

Some students in 1st year Bachillerato want to learn an extract from Romeo and Juliet. Here you have the full text of the play, online.

These are some very popular passages:
Act 1, prologue: Introduction.
Act 1, scene 4: "Queen Mab". Mercutio describes The Queen of Dreams to Romeo (this can be divided in two sections, the long one about Queen Mab and the short one where Mercutio rejects that dreams can have a meaning).
Act 1, scene 5: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" Romeo discovers Juliet.
Act 1, scene 5: from "If I profane with my unworthiest hand" until "You kiss by the book": Romeo and Juliet's first dialogue.

Act 2, scene 2: The "Balcony scene". Initial monologue of Romeo; Juliet's monologue about names.

Act 3 scene 3: "'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here". Romeo laments leaving Verona.

Act 4, scene 1: "Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this": Juliet threatens to kill herself. "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris": Juliet asks Friar Laurence to help her. "Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent" : Friar larence offers a solution.

Act 4, scene 3: "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again." Juliet drinks poison (it cat be cut shorter).

Shakespeare also wrote a collection of 154 sonnets. This is the full list. Sonnets 18, 29, 64, 109, 116, 126, 130, 138, 142, 147, to say just ten, are some of the most popular ones.

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