Romeo and Juliet Background

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Not one of the 4 Great Tragedies

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Romeo and Juliet

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Actor alone on stage, thinking out loud

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Soliloquy

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Actor speaks to audience directly

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Aside

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Shakespeare's plays

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37

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Famous theater for Shakespeare's plays

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The Globe Theater

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Main character's defect in 4 Great Tragedies

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a tragic flaw

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Setting of Romeo and Juliet

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Verona, Italy

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Prologue of the play

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Introduces characters, setting, and foreshadows deaths

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Shakespeare's sonnets count

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154

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Lines in a sonnet

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14