NOVEL: ROMEO AND JULIET

CHAPTER : The Montagues and the Capulets

There were two families in the city of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets. They had hated each other for a lot of years.
The servants, one day, met in the street and they start a fight. Then Lord and Lady Capulet arrived. And Lord and Lady Montague arrived too. Everyone was fighting.
At last the Prince of Verona arrived. He was very angry and he said that if they fight again, they will both die. The fight was over.
Romeo was in love of Rosaline. But Rosaline wasn't love Romeo.
Lord Capulet decided to have a party, because he wonted his daughter, Juliet, to meet Paris. The rich Lord. He hoped he would marry Juliet in the future.
The servant went to invite the guests. Then met Romeo and Benvolio in the street and ask for help to read the names of the list.
Romeo saw that Rosaline were invited in the party.
While Lady Capulet was talking to Juliet to say she would marry Paris.

CHAPTER TWO: The garden of the Capulets

Romeo and Benvolio went to the party with a mask because the people weren't recognise that they were Montague.
He forgot Rosaline when he saw Juliet.
The people dance to the music, and Tybalt recognised Romeo's voice.
Tybalt called his uncle, but Lord Capulet said they can stay in the party.
Romeo went to talk with Juliet and he kiss her lips. Juliet went with the Nurse. Juliet asked who was that young man and Romeo asked the same. They knew who were them.
In the night, Romeo jumped the wall to go in Juliet's garden.
And they were talking, and decided to get married secretly.

CHAPTER THREE: The Prince of Cats

Romeo went to see Friar Laurence because he wanted to marry with Juliet secretly.
Tybalt wanted to fight with him.
The Nurse went to visit Romeo and he gave a message for Juliet “They will meet to Friar Laurence's cell to get married secretly”.
The two lovers got married.
Finally there was a fight between Tybalt and Mercutio. Romeo didn't want to fight to Juliet's cousin. Romeo want to stop the fight and Tybalt killed Mercutio and he run away.

CHAPTER FOUR: Fortune's Fool
Tybalt returned to the fight and Romeo killed him because he was very angry.
Romeo run away because the Prince was coming. Benvolio explained the fight to the Prince.
The Prince say they banish Romeo from Verona.
Romeo went to see for the last time Juliet and they spent the night together.
Paris was very happy because he will married Juliet. But nobody knew that Juliet was married with Romeo secretly.

CHAPTER FIVE: My Lady's Dead!

Lady Capulet explained to Juliet that she had to get married with Paris next Thursday morning. Juliet tried to explain that she didn't want.
Then her father force her to marry him.
Juliet visited Friar Laurence and he gave a special potion for to sleep for forty-two hours and her family think she's death and carry her to the tomb. And there she wakes up and meet Rome for to escape together.
The day of the wedding, the Nurse found Juliet died in the bed and the wedding became a funeral.
And Friar John went to Mantua to tell Romeo to come back to Verona.

CHAPTER SIX: With a Kiss, I Die

Romeo knew that Juliet was dead. Rome went to the tomb of Capulets. In the tomb, Paris tried to arrest Romeo, they fight and Romeo kill Paris.
Rome went inside the tomb, kiss Juliet and drank the poison.
Friar Laurence went to the tomb because he want to help them. He found Romeo dead and Juliet wake up. When Juliet saw Romeo dead, she want to dead too and stabbed herself and fell.
Finally Friar Laurence told the truth to the Montagues and Capulets and families became friends.

 

SHAKESPEARE TIMES

1. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS :
1. Who were the Shakespeares and the Ardens, and what was each family's place in local society?

Mary Arden Shakespeare was the mother of William Shakespeare the Great Bard. She lived between 1540 - 1608. She was the youngest of eight daughters. Mary's wealthy family home was called Glebe Farm, a two-storey Wilmecote farmstead.

2. When do historians think that Shakespeare arrived in London? What is the reason he may have had to leave Stratford?
The historians thinks in 1592, he was already working inLondon.  He have to leave to Stratford because he was caught stealing a deer. 

3. What was the population of London during Shakespeare's time? Can you briefly describe what the city was like at the time? How did it smell like?
In the 16th century William Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived in London at a time of hostility to the development of the theatre. By the end of the Tudor period in 1603, London was still very compact. There was an assassination attempt on James I in Westminster, through the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605.London was plagued by disease in the early 17th/ref century,culminating in the Great Plague of 1665–1666, which killed up to 100,000 people, or a fifth of the population

4. Who was the ruler when Shakespeare first came to London? Who were her parents? Was she a good queen? Why?
The queen of England was Queen Elisabeth I. Her parents were King Henry VIII but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

5. What was the established religion in England during Shakespeare times? Who was Henry VIII? How did he and his daughter influence religion in England?
Was catholic and protestant. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII.

6. Who was Cristopher Marlowe? Which kind of relationship did he have with Shakespeare? How did he die? What might have been suspicious circumstances surrounding his death?

7. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? Who is believed to be the "Dark Lady" of the sonnets? Who else, other than Shakespeare, is believed to have written his plays?

8. Who were the Puritans? What were some of their beliefs? What did they think of the theatre and the actors in Shakespeare's time?

9. What were the main theatres in Shakespeare's times? Where did Shakespeare use to act? What are the names of the acting companies with which Shakespeare was associated?

Choose ONE of these topics and analyze its role within the play:

- SETTING: Italian Verona has been renamed into Verona Beach. Why? Where is it? What is The Globe in the film? If you are working with a blog, use TAGZANIA to locate it.

- IMAGERY: there are lots of metaphors and images in the film: WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...) and FIRE (petrol station, fights...), DAY and NIGHT, the MOON. What do they mean?

- LANGUAGE: which characters speak in verse? which in prose? When? Why do the characters speak in American English if Shakespeare was British? The film has no longer a narrator. Who takes this part instead? Why?

- DREAMS: In Shakespeare's play dreams play an important role. Why? How have they been translated into Luhrman's film? Why is Queen Mab cited?

- THE FANCY DRESS PARTY: Are the costumes the characters wear in the party relevant? What do they represent? Relate the knightly armour to chivalric love.

RELIGION: Religion is something by which the two families justify their actions. There are many religious references in the film (e.g. in the title). Which are they? Why? Do they also appear in Shakespeare’s work?

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-biography-mother-and-father.htm
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/mary-arden.htm

SHAKESPEARE TIMES


SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare was born 1564 and died 1616 in Stratford. He was an English poet and playwright. His principal works are: Romeo and Juliet and Jull Cesar. Shakespeare is the most important English writer and one of the most important global writers too. Shakespeare, at the age of 18, married with Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamlet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.
THE GLOBE
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named “Shakespeare’s Globe", opened in 1997 approximately 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre.
Parts of the Globe:
* Upper Gallery
* Middle Gallery
* Lower Gallery
* Stage

THE WRITTER

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, , widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 lays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attribuited to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

FILM 4: ROBIN HOOD

FILM 4: ROBIN HOOD

Robin of Locksley, an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart in the Third Crusade, is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade Peter. Robin escapes, saving the life of a Moor named Azeem in the process. Peter dies while escaping and has Robin swear to protect his sister Marian. Robin returns to England with Azeem, who vows to accompany Robin until the debt of saving his life is repaid.

1. What were the crusades about?
- The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars by the Christian states of Europe against the Saracens. The term "Saracen" was the word used to describe a Moslem during the time of the Crusades. The Crusades started in 1095 when Pope Claremont preached the First Crusade at the Council of Claremont. The Crusades were great military expeditions undertaken by the Christian nations of Europe for the purpose of rescuing the holy places of Palestine from the hands of the Mohammedans. They were eight in number, the first four being sometimes called the Principal Crusades, and the remaining four the Minor Crusades. In addition there was a Children's Crusade.
2. How about the same period in Spain and Catalonia?

SPAIN-Islam had been in Spain hundreds of years before the first crusade. The Muslims that lived in Spain were called Moors. Christians were fighting against them the whole time, but this fighting was not necessarily a crusade. The mere fact that the war against the Moors in Spain was believed to be meritorious and thus attracted a certain number of French knights does not make it a crusade. The fighting in Spain was simply a Holy War at this time. It did play an important part in the origins of the crusade.

CATALONIA- Before the northward advance of the Moslem forces had run its full cruse at least one center of Christian resistance had made in appearance at the nothern edge of the Hispanic peninsula. By the middle of the ninth century the princes of Asturias-Leon had extended their holdings southward across the Cantabrian mountains for a distance of some sixty miles from the as of the Bay of Biscay. On the eastern coast of the peninsula, to the immediate south of the eastern Pyrinees, lay the Catalan countries of the Spanyish March, Barcelona Chief among them.

3. Where's Robin Hood at the beginning of the film?
- Because Robin saved the life of his wife and he said that he will go with him since he return his favor.

-Robin Hood was in the Crusades.

4. Why is Azeem with Robinç?
Because Robert saved the live of Azeem. And Azeem sweared to Robert to fought by his side until the death.

5. Where do Robin and Azeem go?

They return back to England.

6. Who are the outlaws? Where do they live?
They are a forest man.

7. What happened to Robin's father?

The sheriff of Nothingam said him: FIGHT WITH ME TO THE KING OR DIE, and his father prefer die to fight king.

8. Who's Lady Marian?
Is the cousin of the King, the sister of Peter and is the lover of Robing Hood.

9. Why do Robin and Azeem join the outlaws?
Because the Sheriff killed the Robin's father.

10. Why do they fight against the Sheriff of Nottingham?
Robbin Hood wins and married with Mariam.

ROBIN HOOD

ROBIN HOOD

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

a. Did Robin Hood really exist? Yes, I think he exist.
b. What was he famous for? Because he was a great archer, and he give money for the poor people.
c. Where was he from? He was from Sherwood Forest
d. Can you write a few lines about the story? The following links can help you.

Vocabulary :
Outlaws : Fora de la llei
Suffered : Patit
Hunger : Fam
Slaves : Esclaus
Hiding Place : Lloc secret
Greedy : Avarícia
Embraced : Abraçat
Sword : Espasa
Piligrims : Musulmans
Freely : Lliurement

Robin Hood

Robin Hood (christened Robert) is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor," assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men." Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes.The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or tales of outlaws.

Robin Hood became a popular folk figure starting in medieval times continuing through modern literature, films, and television. In the earliest sources Robin Hood is a commoner, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff.