[continued from the end of this post, where the reader was left waiting for the world premiere of Romeo and Juliet to begin. Other posts in which I’ve talked about Romeo and Juliet are here, here, and here. ] Show
The actor strides to the very edge of the apron. He looks straight at you and declaims beautifully:
This is the Chorus. You (back in real time, reading this in 2011 or later) remember him from Shakespeare in Love, where the actor’s stammering during rehearsal was fodder for both comedy and dramatic tension—until, with everything on the line, he delivered a letter-perfect recitation. No such backstage drama at the actual world premiere, as far as we know; but ignore the gigantic spoiler and pay attention to the ends of the lines. If you’ll let me take you back to high school for just a bit, you’ll notice that the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. That means that this prologue is a sonnet. It was not at all unknown for a play to have a prologue. Christopher Marlowe used them. Here is the beginning of the Chorus of his most famous play, Doctor Faustus: CHORUS
Sonnets were not at all unknown, either. There was a craze for them throughout the 1590s; Shakespeare probably wrote some of his own around this time, for private circulation. But as far as I know (and readers, please enlighten me if I’m wrong), nobody before Shakespeare had ever put the two together; nobody had started a play with a prologue in sonnet form before. Why did Shakespeare do it? Partly, no doubt, he was showing off (although this accusation is more fairly made against Love’s Labour’s Lost, where, as we will see, the sonnet thing gets a little out of hand). Partly too, it’s out of evident sheer exuberance; Romeo and Juliet is the work of a man positively drunk on language. But mainly he does it because it serves the drama. He could perfectly well have set the scene with a prologue in blank verse, as Marlowe did (the form, now familiar thanks to Shakespeare, had only been invented in English thirty or forty years earlier). We might need to be told today, but his attentive listeners (that means you) would have noticed the sonnet. This unusual, if not unprecedented, beginning would have tipped them off that something very special was about to happen. And they would have been especially alert to Shakespeare’s use of language as a means of characterization and dramatization. In this next series of posts I want to take you very carefully through the opening of Romeo and Juliet up to the balcony scene and show you how Shakespeare’s use of language makes crystal clear what kind of people we are dealing with and what kind of place Verona is. As I’ve said, the balcony scene is so familiar it’s hard for us to get beyond the cliched idea that Romeo and Juliet is nothing but a Tragic Tale of Young Love. But I believe that careful attention to Shakespeare’s language—the kind of attention his first listeners would have paid—will show us exactly how high the stakes are, and recapture the urgency that a thousand parodies may have dissipated. To see what I mean, why don’t we go out with one of those parodies, a Warner Brothers cartoon from 1959 entitled “A Witch’s Tangled Hare”? I believe this may be the only meeting of those two titans of Western culture, Shakespeare and Bugs Bunny, and it does have a parody of the balcony scene, which begins at about 4:40. You may want to skip ahead, because this is not one of the great Bugs cartoons by a long shot. Nonetheless, I must have seen this one as a child and it stuck with me. Until I began researching what would become this blog, in fact, I misremembered Bugs as Juliet and thought Elmer Fudd was Romeo. Obviously memory had mixed up “A Witch’s Tangled Hare” with the greatest of all Warners cartoons, “What’s Opera. Doc?” By the way, if you don’t agree that the best Warners cartoons, mostly but by no means all directed by Chuck Jones, are among the supreme achievements of indigenous American art, on a level with jazz and The Great Gatsby, then you really need this blog. So prepare for the opening of Romeo and Juliet proper in the next post, with the entry of the spear carriers Sampson and Gregory.
The line which best restates the above line is: The play is long and requires patience. The prologue of the play Romeo and Juliet tells the audience about the place where the play will revolve on. The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is also been introduced to the audience. Which best relates the meaning of this line What here shall miss?What here shall miss means whatever has been missed, or not completely explained, by this prologue. Our toil is the work of the actors in performing the play. Shall strive to mend means that the performance will mend, or fix, any gaps in the story. Which best restates this line The which if you with patient ears attend?The which if you with patient ears attend, Which best restates this line? C. Listen well and carefully to our show What line is the prologue of Romeo and Juliet?ROMEO JULIET ACT 1 PROLOGUE In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Do with their death bury their parents strife. What is the best paraphrase of these lines Romeo and Juliet?What is the best paraphrasing of these lines? Even their childrens deaths could not end the parents rage. Nothing but their childrens deaths could stop the parents anger. The parents continued their feud even after their children died. What is the most important message in Romeo and Juliet?ROMEO JULIET ACT 1 PROLOGUE In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Do with their death bury their parents strife. What is the most famous Romeo and Juliet scene?Love is naturally the plays dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. What does the last line of Romeo and Juliet mean?In the concluding lines the Prince says that the morning has brought glooming peace. It is glooming because the hero and heroine have died. It is peace because the death of Romeo and Juliet has brought reconciliation between the rival families, Capulet and Montague. What are the last two lines of Romeo and Juliet?A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punishxe8d. What does Lady Capulet mean by the following line?What does Lady Capulet mean by the following line? By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid? she means she was Juliets age when she was Juliets mother. to whom is lady Capulet referring when she says the line, Veronas summer hath not such a flower Which best states the meaning of this line Romeo and Juliet?The line which best restates the above line is: The play is long and requires patience. The prologue of the play Romeo and Juliet tells the audience about the place where the play will revolve on. The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is also been introduced to the audience. Which best describes the purpose of the excerpt of the prologue?What here shall miss means whatever has been missed, or not completely explained, by this prologue. Our toil is the work of the actors in performing the play. Shall strive to mend means that the performance will mend, or fix, any gaps in the story. How many lines does the Prologue have in Romeo and Juliet?Shakespeare wrote the prologue of Romeo and Juliet in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, which means that the prologue is a poem with 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. The sonnet also contains a specific rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg) and can be broken down into three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. How speaks the Prologue in Romeo and Juliet?The prologue to Romeo and Juliet is spoken entirely by the chorus. In Greek drama, the chorus consists of a group of people who serve to narrate throughout the play and provide more details of what the characters are thinking or feeling, and they often sing and dance. Which is the best paraphrase of Benvolio’s lines Romeo and Juliet?The best paraphrase of Benvolios lines is: I want to keep the peace, so put your sword away or use it to help me break up this brawl. What is the best paraphrase of Capulets lines?Which is the best paraphrase of Capulets lines? Juliet is too young and not ready to be married for another two years. Which best restates the meaning of this line Romeo and Juliet?The line which best restates the above line is: The play is long and requires patience. The prologue of the play Romeo and Juliet tells the audience about the place where the play will revolve on. The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is also been introduced to the audience. What is the purpose of these lines Romeo and Juliet?What is the purpose of these lines? Paraphrase these lines from the prologue in two to three sentences. The play is about the frightening path of the childrens doomed love and the constant anger of their parents. Only the childrens death could end the fight. |
The which if you with patient ears attend, which best restates this line?
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