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Okay, so you've never read Shakespeare before. Here's a few things you should know before we begin!
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-shakespeare-loved-iambic-pentameter-david-t-freeman-and-gregory-taylor Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap i...
Romeo & Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy.
Rub the bronze breast of the Juliet statue in the fair city of Verona, Italy, and your luck with love will turn around, the legend goes. But tourists hoping to claim their share of the star-crossed lovers’ romance have done lots of damage to this statue of Juliet!
If at any time during our reading you are having trouble, here is the MODERN version of the text! Look through the prologue and Act I Scene I.
There are two movies that we like to watch clips of during class for a better, visual understanding of our story. Romeo + Juliet, came out in 1996. It's set in modern day, but the language is Shakespeares. The other, came out in 1968.
