William Shakespeare and Romeo and JUliet

Question 1

About what does Shakespeare’s writing show insight?

Answer 1

Inner Most thoughts

Question 2

Describe the time period in whihc Shakespeare liveed-

Answer 2

William Shakespeae lived suring the 16-17 centuries. He lived in Elizabethian England at a time where England was emerging as a power. London was a leading center in culture, and hosued some of the greatest authors, poets, and playwrights

Question 3

When and where was Shakespeare born?

Answer 3

On April 26th, 1564 in Stratford Upon Avon

Question 4

Descriibe Shakespeare’s family and childhood

Answer 4

He was educated in the Kings New School in Stratford it was a grammar school. He was teh eldest surviving son of his parents. When he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway and had three children. His mother was stern and his father was a business man

Question 5

Describe Shakespeare’s first tast of the theater

Answer 5

He was probably in the town market where people performed like bands and circueses. He lived near non theaters

Question 6

What are the Lost Years? Where was he durign this time?

Answer 6

The lost years were the time, right after the birth of his twins where there is no record of him. Some people believe that he went to Europe, others think that he was a school master or his father’s appretince

Question 7

Describe Shakespeare’s marriage and family

Answer 7

He was married to Ann Hathaway, a women 8 years to his senior. He had three children, two daughters Susanna and Judith, and a son Hamnet. He had an interesting relationship with his children, as he traveled often. Some even speculate that he had an affair.

Question 8

Describe the development of Shakespeares writing career. How did others ercieve him.

Answer 8

Shakespeare wrote mostly poems. but soon became more developed. He was verballly attacked, after sons death his plays became more involved

Question 9

Describe Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Answer 9

They consisted of 3 quatrains, with one rhyming couplet at the end, they are very well known

Question 10

What repeatedly halted Shakespeare’s writing?

Answer 10

Political Turmoil as well as the Plague

Question 11

What resonates throughout Shakespeare’s playss?

Answer 11

They have issues related to death

Question 12

WHat perceptions developed about the theater? What did Shakespeare do as a result?

Answer 12

Shakespeare was ungodly, he moved the theater

Question 13

Describe the Globe Theater. Hoe did Shakespeare’s language accommodate this setting? What types of actors played the characters/

Answer 13

The Globe theater was an open aired theater which was all men.

Question 14

Shakespeare wrote for all audiences, soL

Answer 14

the actors would be true to the type of characters

Question 15

On what are Shakespeare’s plays based?

Answer 15

History,written fiction

Question 16

Descibe Shakespeare’s spcialstanding during the time of King James I

Answer 16

He was a gentlemen. His tragedies showed his character

Question 17

What happened to the Glob?

Answer 17

The Globe theater was burned in a fire. It was hard for Shakespeare to continue writing and he retired

Question 18

scribe the end of Shakepseare’s life ?

Answer 18

He was very wealthy at his death. Died on his birthday and is remembered by his works

Question 19

Why can most audiences identify with the main characters of Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 19

The plot is similar to a real life couple. Tey fall madly in love, but are doomed because of already existing conditions

Question 20

Explain how Shakespeare’s audiences already knew the story of Romeo and JUliet

Answer 20

It was based on a narritivee poem by Arthur Brooke, published in 1562

Question 21

Describe the basic story of Romeo and JUliet

Answer 21

There are two houses, each hates the other. When Romeo and Juliet, son and daugher of the Montague and Capulet houses respectively fall in love, they have to go against their parent’s wishes in order to make the relationship succed

Question 22

Shakespeare presents Romeo and JUliet as star crossed lovers because:

Answer 22

In that time, astrology played a key role in a person’s fate. If two people were star crossed the together they were doomed to disaster by fate. He also does this to avoid the mortality issue that Brooke proposed suggesting that htey were doomed to disaster because of the stars

Question 23

To understand what star crossed means, you have to realize that:

Answer 23

Everything was dependent on astrology-every person’s life was determined by the stars that they were born with

Question 24

They believed that the course of their lives was partly determined by

Answer 24

hour day, month and year of birth, hence the stars that they were born under

Question 25

Although Shakespeare says in his prologue that Romeo and JUliet are star crossed, he

Answer 25

does not make them victims of fate. They make decisions that lead to their demise

Question 26

Juliet

Answer 26

The daughter of the Capulet house. She falls in love with Romeo, and eventually fakes her death to try and be with him.

Question 27

Romeo

Answer 27

The son of the Montague house. He is in love with Julet but kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. He eventually poisons himself