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Act 1
_RJ_ Characters
A Toss Up :)
The Theatre
Language and Poetry
100
This is Juliet's age.
What is thirteen?
100
These are the fighting households.
Who are the Capulets and the Montegues?
100
Shakespeare invented these.
What are words?
100
These are the people who stand in the lowest level of the theatre.
Who are the groundlings?
100
This type of poetry has fourteen lines.
What is a sonnet?
200
He breaks up the fighting households.
Who is Prince Escalus?
200
Benvolio is part of this household.
Who is the Montegue household?
200
_Romeo and Juliet_ takes place in these two cities (mentioned) and this country.
What are Mantua, Verona, and Italy?
200
This is the theatre most associated with Shakespeare.
What is the Globe theatre?
200
All of Shakespeare's plays are written like this, making it easier for actors to memorize.
What is verse drama?
300
Romeo reads this.
What is a Capulet party invitation?
300
These are the two Capulet servants first on stage in Act 1.
Who are Sampson and Gregory?
300
This is the period of time in which Shakespeare wrote.
What is the Elizabethan age? What is the Renaissance? What is the age of Shakespeare?
300
This is a type of stage that extends out into the audience.
What is a thrust stage?
300
Shakespeare's works are written in this form of English.
What is modern English?
400
He is Juliet's cousin who draws his sword to fight his foes in Act 1, Scene 1.
Who is Tybalt?
400
This person is extremely close to Juliet.
Who is the nurse?
400
This is a device often used in drama whereby a character speaks to himself or herself
What is a soliloquy?
400
This is when a character/actor speaks to the audience. It is a dramatic device.
What is an aside?
400
This is the "turn" or resolution in a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is a couplet?
500
This is the amount of time that has transpired from the time the play begins until the end of Act 1.
What is one day?
500
This is the man willing to marry Juliet.
Who is Paris?
500
Shakespeare wrote for these two monarchs.
Who are Queen Elizabeth I and King James I?
500
These are what actors called the false ceiling and the trap door.
What are "the heavens" and "hell"?
500
This is the less formal pronoun used when addressing someone in the Elizabethan era.
What is thou?