Homework

• Write a script for show ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’, showing the feud between the servants of the Capulets (Sampson & Gregory) and the Montagues (Abraham & Balthasar).• ONE family has to use modern insults and ONE family has

to use Shakespeare’s archaic insults• You can use verbal & gestural insults• At the end of the feud, Jeremy Kyle has to come in and

break up the feud, just like the Officer does. • DUE Thursday 3rd March

Homework

• The Jeremy Kyle Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oED5sQQfDFY• From 1.30• Model and act out

Act One, Scene One Analysis - Romeo & Juliet

LO: To analyse the Prince Escalus’s speech and Romeo’s imagery using PEE analysis

Look back at Prince Escalus’s speech

• Which lines are most powerful to you?

• Why?

P.E.E example

The Prince of Verona is furious with both the Montagues and Capulets and is horrified by their behaviour as is evident by his claim that their ‘bloody hands’ have created ‘purple fountains issuing from your veins!’ Here the exclamatory phrase illustrates his fury while the description of the following blood as like a ‘fountain’ illustrates the waste of life and the vast amount of blood lost and let in their needless killings and fights. He therefore condemns them all as being stained with blood as if they are all equally responsible and equally murderers of the most heinous nature.

Now it’s your turn!

The Prince of Verona condemns both the Capulets and Montagues. This is evident in his phrase, ‘…………………,’ which shows…………………………………….

Challenge – can you think of alternative

interpretations?

Imagery from Romeo’s speech

Romeo also compares love to a number of different things, using imagery to convey how love makes him feel and how he views it. Try to explain what some of these images tell us about love:

‘Love, whose view is muffled’

‘A sea nourished with lovers’ tears’

Image Romeo Uses:

Explanation:

‘Love, whose view is muffled’

Love is blind therefore we cannot choose who we fall for because it decided for us

‘A smoke raised with the fume of sighs’‘A fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes’‘A sea nourished with lovers’ tears’

Love is a vast experience that is only made more immense by the pain and tears it creates. Like the sea, it creates fierce and changeable emotions

‘A madness’

‘A choking gall (sickness)’

Plenary

• Which quote do you think is the most powerful?