Month: November 2014

Elizabethan theatre

November 27, 2014 / / 1 Comment

The Elizabethan era was a time associated with Queen Elizabeth I’s reign.The world saw and realised the beauty of English poetry, music and literature. This was also the time during which Elizabethan theatre showed its beauty, and William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that people actually enjoyed . It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad. Travellers were exploring  new islands and countries.

The Elizabethan Theatre was a very popular business. People loved the Theatre. The Elizabethan plays and theatres were as popular as the movies and cinemas of today. A lot of money was made from this business. Soon, purpose-built playhouses and great open theatres were being constructed. An example of a theatre made for Shakespeare performances is the all world famous ‘Globe Theatre’.

Summary of Act 5 Scene 3

November 19, 2014 / / 1 Comment

When Romeo arrives, to the Capulet’s tomb, Paris is already there, sadly tossing flowers and paying respect to Juliet. Paris sees Romeo and assumes he’s there to cause more trouble to the Capulet’s(he is holding a ‘wrenching iron’) even after their death.”Can vengeance be pursued even after death?”

Paris then tries to apprehend and arrest Romeo, who is, after all, the County.Romeo refuses but tells Paris that he doesn’t want to fight.  Paris ignores him and they fight,  Paris ends up being stabbed, and killed.He breaks into the tomb and sees Juliet’s ‘corpse’ realising his only real love of his life is actually dead.Then, after a final kiss, Romeo drinks the poison and dies beside his wife

Just at that moment, the Friar comes in and sees Romeo lying there dead.Juliet then  wakes up to find her husband dead at her side.The Friar tries to convince her to run away—the commotion has attracted attention, but Juliet refuses. She tries to drink the rest of the poison so she can die with him, but none is left. So, she resorts to stabbing herself ,with her dagger.

Summary of Act 5 Scene 1

November 13, 2014 / / 1 Comment

In exile in Mantua, Romeo wakes up feeling good. He has just had a dream in which Juliet found him dead, but then kissed him back to life.

Romeo’s friend Balthasar arrives with the news from Verona. There’s no good way to say this: Juliet’s ‘dead’. Well, that’s what he thinks. Romeo immediately decides that the only thing he can do is go to Juliet’s grave and commit suicide there. He knows a poor apothecary who sells illegal drugs, including poisons.

He goes to the apothecary,whose sunken cheeks and hollow looking eyes suggest that he is starving to death, and Romeo convinces him to sell him a dram of poison (even though selling poison is illegal), since,  the guy is starving and really needs the money.