Shakespeare's life, characteristics of "Romeo and Giuliette" and analysis of some texts, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Shakespeare's life, characteristics of "Romeo and Giuliette" and analysis of some texts e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! SHAKESPEARE - Was born in April 1564 in Stratford - Father a famous tradesmanà but financial difficulties - Studied the grammar - Married Anne Hathaway at 18 years old (she 26)à 3 children - Started acting in minor role - Theaters closed because of the plague - They re-opened à he became a shareolder and the main playwrite of Lord Chamberlain’s man - Died at 52 years old after his death, his friend published the first collection of his works= FIRST FOLIO he wrote: - History plays - Comedies (farce and romance) - Tragedies ROMEO AND GIULIETTE PLOT Longstanding fight between two rival families of Verona Montague and Capulet) Romeo loves Rosaline, not returned à he went to the Capulets’ party to meet her BUT he soon forgets her causeà he meets giulietteà they fall in love at first sight PROBLEM= they can’t be lovers cause their families are enemies they are helped by Friar Laurence à they marry secretly romeo is exiled cause he killed Tybald to revenge his friend’s death giuliette is obliged by his parent to marry another man, to avoid this weeding Friar also gave her a potion that makes her appear to be dead Romeo thinks she is really dead so he killed himself drinking poison Giuliette sees romeo dead and she killed herself with his dagger SETTING In Verona because italians were considered violent and passionate THEMES - Power of love= their love more important than their families, loyalty and lives - Passion and violence= the families’ hate is as strong as the love of the two - Individual against society= what the lovers want goes against what their families and society want - Power of fate STYLE An immature one, regular rhythms and common rhymes It’s a: -> COMEDY= instant attraction of the young lovers, the masked balls, comic servants and the superficial life of street fights -> TRAGEDY= role played by chance, the protagonist must fight against external forces that make their relationship difficult