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Romeo and Juliet Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
In this study guide, you'll find help to analyze the famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The guide will make you well equipped to work with the play in classes and in your written (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Message Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, which means that we know right from the start that the play will end badly. Because of this, the play is instructive about how we should go about certa (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Symbols Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
In Romeo and Juliet light and darkness are important symbols. Shakespeare reverses the traditional idea of light as something good and hopeful and darkness as something negative and ominous. Instead, (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Characters Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Naturally, the most important characters in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet are the two protagonists who have lent their names to the title of the play. In the following pages, you can (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Background information Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
It has been more than 400 years since William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. Many things have changed since then - the language, our sense of humor, and the society around us - which you will cle (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Structure Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Just like the classical dramas of ancient Greece and Rome, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is structured into five acts that cover about four days. The two lovers meet early on in the play and are sepa (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Act 3 summary Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Tybalt meets Benvolio, Mercutio, and Romeo in the streets of Verona. He still wants to fight Romeo, but Romeo refuses because he now considers Tybalt family. He does not say so directly, however. Merc (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Act 5 summary Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Romeo is in Mantua and has not received Friar Lawrence’s message about Juliet’s fake death. Thus, when a servant arrives to tell him that Juliet is dead, Romeo believes it. He buys poison from a poor (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Act 2 summary Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
The second prologue of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet sums up the events of Act 1 where Romeo and Juliet met and fell in love, despite being enemies. Romeo has forgotten all about Rosaline whom he nev (…)
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Romeo and Juliet | Act 1 summary Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare begins with a prologue in the form of a sonnet. It is delivered by the chorus, which was normally played by a single actor. A prologue typically introduces the (…)