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List 3 words that you had trouble with in the play because of the Shakespearan language difference:

Translate those words:

Use one of those words in a sentence:

HINT: Next time you are reading something and you are unsure of the meaning or context of the words, use the dictionary to look up the meaning. You can add that word to your glossary and expand your vocabulary.

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What form is the text in?

What are the key identifiers of the written form?
E.g. Songs have chorus that repeat.

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Mercutio: I mean, sir, in delay

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits

Five times in that ere once in our five wits

Act 1, scene 4
1. What is happening in the play at this point?

2. Can you interpret what each line means? What is Mercutio referring to?

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"Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!"     Act 1, scene 1
What is happening in this scene?

What do these words mean?

How do you interpret them?

Have a go at interpreting the words yourself before clicking on this awesome resource, created by Paradigm Education (year),  which translates Shakespearean words. The audio is also available.

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[Enter Sampson and Gregory, two high-ranking servants of the Capulet household, carrying swords and shields. Gregory is making fun of Sampson, who sees himself as a fearsome fighter]

[Enter Abraham and Balthasar, two servants from the Montague household. Sampson bites his thumb at them.]

[Enter Tybalt, a young Capulet nobleman; Benvolio, a young Montague nobleman, enters separately]

[The servants draw their swords and fight. Benvolio draws his sword and approaches the fighting men.]

[Tybalt draws his sword and addresses Benvolio]

[They fight. More noblemen and servants from both houses arrive and join in the fighting. Then a number of other citizens armed with clubs and spears appear on the scene. Finally a police officer shows up.]

[Enter the elderly Lord Capulet in his nightgown and Lady Capulet]

[Enter the elderly Lord Montague in his nightgown and Lady Montague trying to restrain her husband]

Thou villain Capulet. [To his wife] Hold me not, let me go.

[Enter the Prince with his attendants]

[Exit all but Montague, Lady Montague, and Benvolio]

[Exit Montague and Lady Montague]

[Seeing signs of the brawl]

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1. What does the word 'tis' in the play 'Romeo and Juliet' mean to?