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Shakespeare’s writing. By : Will Epsom, Dan Check, Ryan Kern, and Ethan Danzing. Romeo and Juliet.
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Shakespeare’s writing By: Will Epsom, Dan Check, Ryan Kern, and Ethan Danzing
Romeo and Juliet • In the play is general conflict between two families in which their offspring fall in love (Romeo and Juliet) but are forbidden to see each other because of a blood feud between the two families and the two end up dying because of that love.
Romeo and Juliet Continued • This play shows young love because most young lovers feel that they have to overcome huge obstacles in order to be together. • This relates to the play because Romeo and Juliet have to overcome a family feud in order to be together and die because of it. • It is easier to look at the play through young love than it is to look at it through a couple in an unusual world.
Shakespeare’s First Folio • Shakespeare’s First Folio was the first collected edition of plays by William Shakespeare published in 1623. • The First Folio contained about 900 pages with 36 of William Shakespeare’s plays. • It was named “Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies”. • William Shakespeare's fellow actors, John Hemminge and Henry Condell, were the editors of the First Folio. • The plays were categorized as Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.
Shakespeare’s First Folio Continued • The Printers and Publishers of the First Folio were Edward Blount, William Jaggard and his son Isaac. • Back then, about 500 copies of the First Folio were printed at the price of just £1 or $1.45 for each copy. • In the First Folio he had 14 Comedies, 10 Histories, and 12 Tragedies. • Some of the plays that were in the First Folio were Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and many other famous and well written plays.
Understanding Shakespeare Literature • Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English, which made his writing readable today, but requires some translation. • Many readers who are new to reading his works have difficulty trying to understand his unusual sentence structures and wording. • People who read his plays, poems and stories will not understand most of the words (Keep Dictionary in hand).
Understanding Shakespeare Literature Continued • The sentence structure and imagery used in his poems and plays create a vivid image unrivaled today • His plays are written to give the actors a perfect idea of what the character should be like
The Sonnets • Sonnet- A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. • In the Sonnets, there are 154 poems, and one of his long poems is called “The Sonnets”. Some of the most popular Shakespeare Sonnets are “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?” and “The Dark Lady”.
The Sonnets Continued • Shakespeare wrote two of his longest Sonnets when he was unemployed from 1592-1594. The poems include, “Venus and Adonis”, and “The Rape of Lucrece”. • “Venus and Adonis” is about the encounter between the Roman goddess of love (Abdonis) and the boy hunter (Venus). • “The Rape of Lucrece” is about the history of a great empire, the time when Rome stopped being a kingdom and becomes a Republic.
