Learning
How to
Read
Shakespearean
Plays
100
Wrote the play Romeo and Juliet
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
On the second page of the textbook.
Where is the Table of Contents?
100
The publisher of our textbook.
What is Oxford University Press?
100
On page 142.
Where could I find a complete list of Shakespeare's plays?
100
142.
How many pages are in the textbook?
200
Roma Gill
Who is the editor of this book series?
200
Where could you find a short overview of the play and its history.
What is in the introduction on page v - viii?
200
How many Acts are in the play?
What is 5?
200
XVII stands for this number.
What is 17?
300
Acts are divided into these.
What are scenes?
300
On page IX.
Where could you find a detailed list of the characters in the Montague and Capulet families?
300
The first two lines of the play.
What is "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona (where we lay our scene),
300
XIX stands for this number.
What is 19?
300
You can find a quick reference list of characters here so you can keep them straight as you read.
What is page XXXIII?
400
Juliet says this in Act I, Scene 5, line 109.
What is "You kiss by th' book"?
400
These are written in italics in the play and are not read aloud.
What are stage directions?
400
The purpose of the left hand column on each page of the play.
What is a running glossary to explain the language as you read?
400
How you know what character is speaking.
What is bolded names above their lines?
400
Between 1594 and 1596.
When was Romeo and Juliet probably written?
500
The replica of Shakespeare's theatre, The Globe, is located here in London.
Where is in Southwark, on the bankside site of the original?
500
Read with feeling the lines in Act II, Scene II, lines 33-36.
What is "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
500
Ms. Tamblyn's favourite character.
Who is Mercutio?
500
The role Ms. Hawkins will play at all times.
Who is Lady Capulet?
500
The two monarchs who reigned England while Shakespeare was alive.
Who are Elizabeth I and James I?
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