The first thing we will do today is read Act 1, Scene 4 (1.4) along with the audio. Pay extra close attention to the dynamic in this group of friends. How would their friends describe Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio individually?
**Please note that we'll be finishing Act 1 this week. On Friday you will have a quiz. Below is a list of items that may be on it:
**Please note that we'll be finishing Act 1 this week. On Friday you will have a quiz. Below is a list of items that may be on it:
- Key background information on Shakespeare's work and Elizabethan theater
- The prologue--what it is, what it says, and how it says it (poetic devices used in it)
- Action in Act 1--what happens between the characters in the first act of the play?
- Characters in Act 1--who is involved in the story and what side are they all on?
- Terms in Act 1--know the terms that we have discussed so far (see your folio notes for the ones with examples)