Romeo & Juliet Entire Play

What is one of the more likely reasons why high school students are required to read literary works written by William Shakespeare?

• because most of today's high-paying jobs require fluency in Elizabethan-era language and literature

• because Shakespeare's works are highly entertaining

• because Shakespeare's works have had (and continue to have) a significant influence on the world's authors and cultures

What is one of the more likely reasons why high school students are required to study The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?

• because the main characters are close in age to high school students

• because it forces teachers and students to confront the controversial topic of premarital (UNO)

• because the story teaches valuable lessons about gang violence and drug addiction

With which theater are Shakespeare's works most closely associated?

• the Mercury Theater

• the Apollo Theater

• the Globe Theater

If you flew to London, you could visit a modern reconstruction of Shakespeare's theater. What would be one fo the most noticeable differences in watching a play performed at this theater, as opposed to watching that same play performed at a theater where you live?

• The costumes would be fancier in London

• Nobody is given assigned seats at the theater in London

• You might get rained on while watching the play in London.

Shakespeare most likely included the prologue to make certain that everyone in the audience knew that ...

• the children from two long-feuding families will fall in love and die.

• the play is written in iambic pentameter

• Juliet will fake her own death in order to be with Romeo

The lines of the prologue, "And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which but their children's end, naught could remove," is finally fulfilled when...

• Capulet says, "O brother Montague, give me thy hand."

• the Prince says, "Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate..."

• the Friar says, "A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents."

The fight in Act 1, Scene 1 starts when...

• the officer and townspeople agitate the two sides

• Benvolio taunts Tybalt for being unmanly and weak

• Capulet and Montague servants quarrel over petty insults.

Although is was first mentioned in the prologue, the initial fight between Tybalt and Benvolio (and all of the others) in Act 1 is a bit of dramatic exposition that emphasizes...

• Tybalt's reputation as a talented swordsman

• Benvolio as a possible romantic rival of Romeo

• the long-running feud between the families

When the audience first meets Romeo, he is depressed because...

• the woman he loves doesn't love him

• Juliet wont answer his love letters

• a good friend of his has just been killed

In Act 1, Romeo agrees to attend Capulet's party when he hears...

• that Juliet will be at the party

• about all the hot chicks that will be there

• that the girl he likes will be there