Romeo ‘IS the day so young…sad hours seem long.’ Introduce character to audience before even met
by parent, parental concern show that they are
Masculine honour- defending your family pride young, childish lovers, dramatic irony because
was very important, Prologue says they are going to die, personify
Aristocratic duels were introduced by Elizabeth in day, loss of youth and life in love, foreshadow
order to reduce the brawls and violence rest of play, sad-sorrowful and unhappy, he is
happening on the streets lovelorn and upset, but also mean pathetic, his
Monarchs – Lady Jane Grey, Edward, Mary 1, lovelorn, lovesick attitude pathetic to audience,
short reigns, two of them died young, Lady Jane no masculine pride or honour in him, Freytag’s
was forced into becoming queen and Romeo is pyramid, end of play the drugs are quick but he
forced by Mercutio’s death to accept masculine arrives too early not too late, he wants the end of
responsibility life which is upsetting as he is in the prime of life
Conflict between Catholics and Protestants at the as youth,
time because Mary 1 had been Catholic –
propaganda at the time to reinforce Play starts with hate, ends in love
Protestantism, ERS allowed balance between to Love and violence intertwined
satisfy both Brawling – fighting, quarrelling noisily – the
Spanish Armada who was Catholic to invade and physical fights of the feud but the mental turmoil
conquer England after Mary Queen of Scots was ‘O brawling love! O loving hate!’ of love
executed – stopped by the Protestant wind of Microcosm of theme of play- family love directed
God externally as hatred, oxymoron, have to use
Rebellions-Northern rebellion 1569, Ridolfi 1571 violence to achieve love
after the bull of excommunication supported by
the Pope, Throckmorton 1583 prevented by profane- dishonour, dishonour the family by his
Walsingham spy network, Babington 1586 presence, desecrate – dishonouring religion, love
between Mary and Babington, most to is encompassing all, semantic field of religion –
assassinate Elizabeth beauty of death and sacrifice in love, iambic
Fortuna’s wheel of Fortune- ups and downs, she ‘If I profane with my unworthiest hand/This holy pentameter – hearts beating to same rhythm,
changes it, superstition widely believed at the shrine, the gentle sin is this’ sonnet form, shrine – beauty, holiness,
time and Elizabeth used astrologers to predict reverence, worship, love only described in
when to set her coronation date religion and pure association with God, purity
Shakespeare wanted to encourage peace and passion of divine
between Catholic and Protestant – plays were Dramatic irony, we know that lovers die,
,strictly censored by the Master of Revels so set in astrology-bad omens, iambic pentameter-fixed
Verona form, no change, heartbeats are being controlled
Placing Protestant characters in a Catholic setting by fate, enjambment try to be free but restricted
to illustrate the differences and violence in them by caesura, stars symbolise new beginning,
In CofE saint worshipping was idolatry but they beginning of end, dreams and pursuits as Queen
did anyway Mab said end in nothing, fantastical notions
In RCC marriage is a union, consummation is ‘I fear too early, for my mind misgives/Some
essential, suicide is mortal and bigamy is mortal consequence yet hanging in the stars’ Man too much in love loses his manliness at the
sin time, womanly weak kindness, embracing
masculine code once again, accept responsibility
Women were inferior to men in the patriarchy, of honour and family duty, rhyming couplet
even though women Queen on throne she had to reflect their union has caused Mercutio’s death,
change to Supreme Governor from Supreme their union has been threatened because he is
Head because people would not live women changing his tune, not accepting responsibility for
being head of the church, furthermore, appease actions,
the Catholics who saw Pope as head of the ‘O sweet Juliet,/Thy beauty hath made me (done earlier)
Church effeminate’ Romeo is subject to whims of Fortuna’s wheel,
‘fire-eyed fury be my conduct now’ previous act just been married, tried to ensue
peace but resorted to masculine honour and
aggression so peripetia begins but audience
sympathise, o – surprise, emotion, succumb to
fate, fool-silly, Romeo’s hamartia is his youth,
innocence, he has been duped by Friar Lawrence,
Juliet and himself into thinking he would be
happy and free, but society has restricted and
confined him, end-stopping to foreshadow
beginning of end of their lives,
‘O, I am fortune’s fool’ semantic field of eating as personification of
tomb, eat – essential to life, death essential to
plot, love and peace of mind, greed to see Juliet -
obsession, gorged- crammed, youth all dying,
pre-modifying adjectives -making decisions
before thinking, rash and haste- hamartia, rotten-
, Women were chattel and property for men-love suffer from decay, Juliet’s rotting body, rotten-
was inferior to virginity and wealth-business terrible, awful, passionate emotion in his
transaction determination, society is decaying from dying
children
Wealth is nothing without love in direct contrast
to the society construct of marriage, apothecary
speak verse-despite lower social status still equal
to Romeo in identity and value, criticise
‘Thou detestable maw,… Gorged with the dearest Elizabethan Poor Law or treatment of the poor
morsel of the earth,’ and marginalising them, afford-have enough
money to pay, the divide between rich and poor
at the time, also having time or money to spare,
Elizabethan Poor Law introduced to provide there is money to spare for the poor but the rich
support for the deserving poor via a poor are greedy and keep it
donation/rate in church and providing Love rivals are meeting for the first time,
workhouses, but still punishment for the idle man=married, assert dominance over unmarried
poor via whipping, house of correction, hanging Paris and that he has married his fiancée, defy his
hamartia and his youth, Act I Scene 1-Tybalt said
have at thee coward, now his hamartia is anger
and desperations leading to impulsive, rash
‘The world affords no law to make thee rich;’ decisions foreshadow his death and ending,
rhetorical question-anger, rage, rash decisions,
thou-informal, mocking, so different from
lovelorn Romeo/
Romeo and Juliet are both adolescents – Juliet is Circular narrative-is the day so young, his life is to
confined as women were but he is free end, star-crossed lovers, controlled and
manipulated by fate, yoke-restraint, also harness
for animals, he has been bridles and contained,
enjambment and caesura, long life cut short by
fate and feud, fatigue from life of world,
Circular narrative-is the day so young and thy
drugs are quick, their parallel consumption of
by parent, parental concern show that they are
Masculine honour- defending your family pride young, childish lovers, dramatic irony because
was very important, Prologue says they are going to die, personify
Aristocratic duels were introduced by Elizabeth in day, loss of youth and life in love, foreshadow
order to reduce the brawls and violence rest of play, sad-sorrowful and unhappy, he is
happening on the streets lovelorn and upset, but also mean pathetic, his
Monarchs – Lady Jane Grey, Edward, Mary 1, lovelorn, lovesick attitude pathetic to audience,
short reigns, two of them died young, Lady Jane no masculine pride or honour in him, Freytag’s
was forced into becoming queen and Romeo is pyramid, end of play the drugs are quick but he
forced by Mercutio’s death to accept masculine arrives too early not too late, he wants the end of
responsibility life which is upsetting as he is in the prime of life
Conflict between Catholics and Protestants at the as youth,
time because Mary 1 had been Catholic –
propaganda at the time to reinforce Play starts with hate, ends in love
Protestantism, ERS allowed balance between to Love and violence intertwined
satisfy both Brawling – fighting, quarrelling noisily – the
Spanish Armada who was Catholic to invade and physical fights of the feud but the mental turmoil
conquer England after Mary Queen of Scots was ‘O brawling love! O loving hate!’ of love
executed – stopped by the Protestant wind of Microcosm of theme of play- family love directed
God externally as hatred, oxymoron, have to use
Rebellions-Northern rebellion 1569, Ridolfi 1571 violence to achieve love
after the bull of excommunication supported by
the Pope, Throckmorton 1583 prevented by profane- dishonour, dishonour the family by his
Walsingham spy network, Babington 1586 presence, desecrate – dishonouring religion, love
between Mary and Babington, most to is encompassing all, semantic field of religion –
assassinate Elizabeth beauty of death and sacrifice in love, iambic
Fortuna’s wheel of Fortune- ups and downs, she ‘If I profane with my unworthiest hand/This holy pentameter – hearts beating to same rhythm,
changes it, superstition widely believed at the shrine, the gentle sin is this’ sonnet form, shrine – beauty, holiness,
time and Elizabeth used astrologers to predict reverence, worship, love only described in
when to set her coronation date religion and pure association with God, purity
Shakespeare wanted to encourage peace and passion of divine
between Catholic and Protestant – plays were Dramatic irony, we know that lovers die,
,strictly censored by the Master of Revels so set in astrology-bad omens, iambic pentameter-fixed
Verona form, no change, heartbeats are being controlled
Placing Protestant characters in a Catholic setting by fate, enjambment try to be free but restricted
to illustrate the differences and violence in them by caesura, stars symbolise new beginning,
In CofE saint worshipping was idolatry but they beginning of end, dreams and pursuits as Queen
did anyway Mab said end in nothing, fantastical notions
In RCC marriage is a union, consummation is ‘I fear too early, for my mind misgives/Some
essential, suicide is mortal and bigamy is mortal consequence yet hanging in the stars’ Man too much in love loses his manliness at the
sin time, womanly weak kindness, embracing
masculine code once again, accept responsibility
Women were inferior to men in the patriarchy, of honour and family duty, rhyming couplet
even though women Queen on throne she had to reflect their union has caused Mercutio’s death,
change to Supreme Governor from Supreme their union has been threatened because he is
Head because people would not live women changing his tune, not accepting responsibility for
being head of the church, furthermore, appease actions,
the Catholics who saw Pope as head of the ‘O sweet Juliet,/Thy beauty hath made me (done earlier)
Church effeminate’ Romeo is subject to whims of Fortuna’s wheel,
‘fire-eyed fury be my conduct now’ previous act just been married, tried to ensue
peace but resorted to masculine honour and
aggression so peripetia begins but audience
sympathise, o – surprise, emotion, succumb to
fate, fool-silly, Romeo’s hamartia is his youth,
innocence, he has been duped by Friar Lawrence,
Juliet and himself into thinking he would be
happy and free, but society has restricted and
confined him, end-stopping to foreshadow
beginning of end of their lives,
‘O, I am fortune’s fool’ semantic field of eating as personification of
tomb, eat – essential to life, death essential to
plot, love and peace of mind, greed to see Juliet -
obsession, gorged- crammed, youth all dying,
pre-modifying adjectives -making decisions
before thinking, rash and haste- hamartia, rotten-
, Women were chattel and property for men-love suffer from decay, Juliet’s rotting body, rotten-
was inferior to virginity and wealth-business terrible, awful, passionate emotion in his
transaction determination, society is decaying from dying
children
Wealth is nothing without love in direct contrast
to the society construct of marriage, apothecary
speak verse-despite lower social status still equal
to Romeo in identity and value, criticise
‘Thou detestable maw,… Gorged with the dearest Elizabethan Poor Law or treatment of the poor
morsel of the earth,’ and marginalising them, afford-have enough
money to pay, the divide between rich and poor
at the time, also having time or money to spare,
Elizabethan Poor Law introduced to provide there is money to spare for the poor but the rich
support for the deserving poor via a poor are greedy and keep it
donation/rate in church and providing Love rivals are meeting for the first time,
workhouses, but still punishment for the idle man=married, assert dominance over unmarried
poor via whipping, house of correction, hanging Paris and that he has married his fiancée, defy his
hamartia and his youth, Act I Scene 1-Tybalt said
have at thee coward, now his hamartia is anger
and desperations leading to impulsive, rash
‘The world affords no law to make thee rich;’ decisions foreshadow his death and ending,
rhetorical question-anger, rage, rash decisions,
thou-informal, mocking, so different from
lovelorn Romeo/
Romeo and Juliet are both adolescents – Juliet is Circular narrative-is the day so young, his life is to
confined as women were but he is free end, star-crossed lovers, controlled and
manipulated by fate, yoke-restraint, also harness
for animals, he has been bridles and contained,
enjambment and caesura, long life cut short by
fate and feud, fatigue from life of world,
Circular narrative-is the day so young and thy
drugs are quick, their parallel consumption of
