Shakespeare’s Dentist and Story
Common Elizabethan Words [top]
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Act I
1. Crutch- " A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for your sword?" (Act 1, Sc. 1, Line 76)
Noun: Wanting to know why, calling someone a name.
Definition: to support with, prop up.
My prediction was not accurate because I didn’t say something to give you support.
2. Importuned-" Have you importuned him by any means?" (Act 1, Sc. 1, Line 145)
Verb: made sad, done something to make someone mad
Definition: to trouble with requests or demands, to annoy
My prediction was not right because I put to make sad instead of to annoy.
3. Unattainted- "Go thither, and with unattainted eye" (Act 1, Sc. 2, Line 87)
Verb: not looking at anything in particular
Definition: unbiased
My prediction was correct because I guessed right.
4. Devout- "When the devout religion of mine eye" (Act 1, Sc. 2, Line 90)
Adj.: true
Definition: very religious, heartfelt, sincere
My prediction was almost correct but I did not have enough words.
5. Beseech- " I beseech you follow straight" (Act 1, Sc. 3, Line 104)
Verb: after you
Definition: to ask for, beg for
My prediction was not accurate because I didn’t understand how it was used.
Verb: shows off
Definition: taunts, joking
My prediction was not accurate because I understood what they were saying wrong.
Verb: get rid of, throw away
Definition: cast off
My prediction was correct because I guessed right.
Adj.: waited on
Definition: postponed
My prediction was accurate because I guessed right.
Adj.: ornery
Definition: a remark that is free or blunt in expressing truth
My prediction was not correct because my guess wasn’t right.
Adj.: wildness
Noun: a continuing bitter hate or ill will
My prediction was not correct because I did not know the meaning.
Noun: more coming
Definition: have to do with, relate Verb
My prediction was not correct because my educated guess was not right.
Noun: weapon
Definition: a sword
My prediction was right because I guessed right.
Verb: fighting
Definition: to give and take in an angry way
My prediction was correct because I understood the context.
Verb: covered
Definition: smudge or smear over
My prediction was not correct because my guess was not right.
Verb: consent
Definition: outward expression of grief
My prediction was not correct because my guess was wrong.
Notes- Shakespeare Clarified
[top]Verb Goes before Subject
Shakespeare would say:
Goes (verb) he (subject)
We would say:
He (subject) goes (verb)
*Both mean same thing.
Word Separation
-instead of-
Omits Words
My Examples
Verb Goes before Subject
Shakespeare’s version- "Walked she down the street."
Our version- "She walked down the street."
Word Separation
Shakespeare’s version- six and thirty
Our version- thirty-six
Omits Words
Shakespeare’s version- "I do the dishes and e’en put them away."
Our version- "I do the dishes and even put them away."
Romeo and Juliet
[top]Study Guide
Scene I
1. The play is about two families who don’t like each other. One person from each family fall in love with each other and the families have to deal with it. When the two people die the families stop fighting. The people die because they didn’t like their families arguing and hating each other.
3. Tybalt’s name comes from a word that means "bold" and Benvolio comes from Latin words that mean, "I wish." Tybalt’s name is appropriate because he likes to confront people and start things. He is kind of old in that he just goes up to people and speaks his mind. Benvolio’s name is appropriate because he doe not like to fight. He wishes it could happen but he tries to keep the peace.
4. The prince is upset with the two families because they were fighting and disturbed the peace.
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. Romeo uses the metaphor "Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still…" (Act 1, Sc. 1, Line 171) These reflect his agitated state because he just thinks love is a bad thing now.
Scene ii
Scene IV
1. Mercutio’s name comes from the Roman God Mercury who was known for eloquence and cleverness. Mercutio is teasing Romeo about being so in love with Rosaline and not forgetting her.
Scene v
1. "O, she doth teaches the torches to burn bright", "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in Ethiop’s ear", "Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!" (Act 1, Sc. 5, Lines 45-48)
3. Romeo and Juliet talk about how they love each other. They talk about how they want to marry and Romeo will go to set up a time. He will come back in the morning to tell her.
4. When Romeo finds out Juliet is a Capulet, he still loves her and it doesn’t seem to affect him.
5. Juliet’s reaction is she is sad she can only love one person and the only person she can love is her enemy.
Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
[top]Scene I
1. A young person wants to be the heir of someone in his deathbed. Romeo groaned for Rosaline and when he met Juliet he forgot about her. Now Romeo loves Juliet by looks. They are foes so he might not get her. She loves him so they do go together. Passion gives them power and time meet each other but it ends in extreme sweet.
Scene ii
1. Romeo uses the metaphor "It is the east and Juliet is the sun" (Act 2, scene 2 line 3). This means Juliet is really bright and lights up the East. He is comparing her to the sun because the sun is the brightest thing we have.
2. The solution that Juliet suggests to deal with their families’ enmity is Romeo should change his name and if they really love each other she will change hers.
3. When Juliet says, "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would still smell so sweet.," she means that just because you have a name it doesn’t change or tell people who you are. Romeo would still be the same person if his name weren’t Romeo.
Scene iii
5. Romeo wants to get into things really fast and doesn’t want to wait for anything. He doesn’t want to wait to find out anything more he just wants to get stuff done. The Friar likes to takes things slow and ask questions. He doesn’t like to rush but he wants to make sure something is right before he goes along with it.
Scene IV
3. In this scene, Romeo is happy and will talk with people again. Also in this scene he loves Juliet. At the beginning of the play he wouldn't talk to anyone or go do anything. He just sat by himself. He loved Rosaline then.
4. Mercutio is happy with Romeo because he is not upset anymore and seems to be over Rosaline.
5. Go to the Friar’s to get married is the message Romeo gives the nurse for Juliet.
Scene v
Scene VI
1. Friar Lawrence serves as a dramatic foil to Romeo in this scene because he says to wait and not get married too soon. He should wait for marriage because if he rushes like when everyone rushes bad things usually happen. On the other hand, Romeo wants to hurry and get married right away. He doesn’t want to wait for anything.
Romeo and Juliet
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7. When Romeo says, "I am fortune’s fool" he means that fate has made a fool of him. He was alive to be a fool.
Scene II
1. Juliet’s mood according to her soliloquy in the beginning of the scene is Juliet is impatiently waiting for Romeo to come to her room.
Scene III
Scene IV
1. Capulet thinks Juliet weeps because Tybalt died.
Scene v
1. In this scene when Romeo comes to visit Juliet’s bedchamber they are still really in love with each other. Juliet doesn’t want him to leave and she doesn’t seem to care that he killed her cousin. Romeo doesn’t want to leave either but has to if he wants to live.
2. When Juliet foreshadows their deaths in this scene her exact words are "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale" (Act 3, scene 5, lines 55-57).
Romeo and Juliet [
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Scene I
2. Paris and Juliet’s feelings about marrying each other are different. Paris really wants to marry her and he says he is in love with her. Juliet does not want to marry him because she does not love him and she is married to Romeo. In her religion it is a sin to be married to more than one person at the same time.
3. This is Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s plan for her wedding day. She should go home, ant happy and say she will marry Paris. The next night she should make sure she is alone and not let the nurse stay with her in her bedchamber. She should take the vial with her when she is in bed and drink the distilling liquor that will run through the veins and get rid of her pulse. She will not be warm and have no signs of breathing to show she is alive. Her lips and cheeks will fade and her eyes will fall. She will turn stiff and stark and cold and limp and look like she is dead. She will be like this for forty-two hours and then she will wake up as if she was sleeping. When Paris comes in the morning to wake her he will find out she is dead. Then in her best clothes she will be put in the Capulet’s tomb. He will send letters to Romeo, Romeo will leave and when she wakes up he and Romeo will be watching her. Her and Romeo can then go away together.
Scene ii
1. When Juliet returns from Friar Lawrence’s cell she tells her father that she apologizes and says she will marry Paris.
Scene iii
Scene IV
1.Capulet sends the nurse to wake Juliet.
Scene v
Romeo and Juliet [
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Scene I
1. Romeo’s dream was that he was found by Juliet either sleeping or dead in bed and she kissed him and he woke up. Juliet ahs just taken stuff that made her look like she was dead but she wasn’t. If he saw her it would be like his dream. She wasn’t really dead and she would wake up soon.
2. Balthasar is Romeo’s servant and he tells Romeo that Juliet is dead.
4. Romeo asks Balthasar if he has news from the Friar and he says no. The story would have changed if he did have news. If he had news and he told Romeo about Juliet and how she really wasn’t dead then Romeo could have left later and would not have killed himself right away but would have waited for her to wake and they could have gone away together. The story would have ended happier and the families might have still stopped fighting but in a different tone.
Scene ii
Scene iii
3. Paris says he doesn’t like Romeo because he killed Juliet’s cousin and he thinks that is why she was grieving and died. He would like to fight Romeo. Romeo then explains to him that he should back and not mess with him or he might hurt him. Paris thinks Romeo is going to do something bad to the dead bodies so he stays and they fight. Paris gets stabbed and tells Romeo to lay him in the tomb with Juliet. Romeo then finds out he does belong there and does as he is told.
4. Paris was related to Mercutio.
5. If Romeo had been thinking more calmly, from Juliet’s appearance he would have realized she wasn’t really dead. He noticed her cheeks and lips were rosy and she didn’t look dead but he didn’t figure out she wasn’t really dead.
9. Here is Friar Lawrence’s final solution for Juliet. He hears noise and tells her that Romeo and Paris have both been killed. He will take her away and give her to a sisterhood of holy nuns. He then runs away by himself because Juliet refuses to come.
10. Friar Lawrence leaves so quickly because he thinks he will get caught and people might think he killed them.
11. Juliet’s words echo Romeo’s words in this way. Romeo sees her and says how her lips and cheeks are rosy and she is still warm. When Juliet kisses Romeo hoping there will be poison on his lips, she finds out his lips are warm.
14. The Friar’s speech talks about the important stuff that no one knew about. He talks about how Romeo and Juliet were married, how Romeo killed Tybalt and then got banished, how he married Romeo and Juliet, that Juliet was sad for Romeo, Juliet was going to kill herself so he gave her this potion that made her look dead but Romeo found out before he could get there and actually thought she was dead. He is not an innocent bystander because he was involved more than he actually says. He made up all of the plans for everyone and started the whole thing.
15. This is how the prince says hit affects everyone. "See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heavens finds means to kill your joys with love. And I, for winking at your discords, too have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished." (Act 5, Sc. 3, Lines 292-295)
16. The parents say this to each other to prove their arguing is over. Capulet says, "O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more can I demand." (Act 5, Sc. 3, Lines 296-298) Montague says, "But I can give thee more, for I will raise her statue in pure gold, that whiles Verona by that name is known there shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet." (Act 5, Sc. 3, Lines 298-302)
17. If I were the Prince I would punish the parents. The parents were so caught up in hating each other they didn’t even watch out for their own kids. Their kids had realized before them that it does not matter and there is no need to hate but they kept on hating anyway. It got them no where. In a way they already are punished because their children are dead. I might pardon the Friar. Even though he started everything and kind of made things worse, he was just trying to help. If his plans had worked, this tragedy might not have happened.
Shakespeare Worksheet
[top]Exact date of birth is not known, but it is celebrated on April 23. He died on April 23 1611.
He was born on Henley Street in Stratford.
He married Anne Hathaway. He had 3 children. His children’s names were Susanna, Hamnet Sadler, and Judith.
Shakespeare’s dad John came to Stratford from Snitterfield before 1532. He sold gloves and was a tanner of leathers. He dealed in farm products and wool. His mother was the daughter of a wealthy man who owned a 60-acre farm. Her name was Mary Arden.
Queen Elizabeth
He wrote 37 plays. 5 plays are Henry VI, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. A sonnet is a 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
The Globe Theater was a theater. It was the primary home of Shakespeare’s acting company. It is in London, England near the river Thames.
Groundlings are people who sit in the pit of the theater.
A tragedy is a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruins or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet.
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What is a comedy? Give 2 Shakespeare examples.A comedy is a dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear.
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What is iambic pentameter?Is one short syllable followed by one long syllable: one unstressed syllable, by one pentameter is a measure of verse having 5 metrical feet.
It is a verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually iambic pentameter.
Romeo and Juliet is about a boy and a girl who fall in love. People don’t want them to be together but they stay together and get married anyway. They end up killing themselves.
My Trip to the Dentist
Yesterday was my first trip to the dentist. I was happy they finally let me in, because I had an awful toothache. I sat down in the chair and said, " I can’t wait to hear what’s wrong!" Then, they immediately started rubbing my teeth with rough, hard things. It was extremely painful. They decided my tooth was good no more so they pulled it out. They just yanked it out of my mouth. I was screaming so loud you wouldn’t believe it. They needed four people to hold me down. The dentist that was working on me wanted to put in another tooth. I got a dead man’s tooth because that was all they had. I am at home now and I hate life. I have a dead person’s tooth in my mouth (gross!) and my teeth hurt so bad I can’t eat anything. It even hurts to drink. I think they rubbed off the top of my tooth. I guess I am lucky to still be alive but I am not planning anymore trips to the dentist anytime soon.
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To Montague,
Methinks thou art a hideous, eye-offending rabbit-sucker. Withal, I would thou were a distempered, pinch-spotted jack-a-nape. Wilt thou be a lewd, mad-bread manikin or a gnarling, dog-hearted crutch? Hie hence so I will not need to see thou anymore. Whence will thou go? Take your choice snipe. Doth thou really know how much I hate thou? Thou art a plague on this city. You cause me woe and I will you to leave before I become extremely heavy. I pray thou don’t stay a jaded, onion-eyed remnant. Adieu my foe.
From,
Capulet
He does not seem to understand his own feelings. At the beginning he is really obsessed with Rosaline. He says she doesn’t love him but he is in love with her. He knows they cannot be together but will not stop thinking about her. Benvolio suggests to Romeo to forget her and Find someone else but he won’t listen. Mercutio teases him and talks to him and makes speeches to him but that doesn’t help.
Finally, they find out about a party and Benvolio says Romeo should go and look at women there and maybe he will find someone prettier. Romeo agrees and then he sees Juliet. He suddenly falls in love with her. He just very easily forgets about Rosaline and falls in love with someone else. He doesn’t seem to know who he likes yet.
The gray-eyed morn smiles (the gray sky in the morning is getting brighter), frowning night (the night is dark and gloomy), the sun advance his burning eye (the sun is one burning ball like and eye in the sky), the day to cheer (the sun is bright and makes people happy), night’s dank dew to dry (to dry dew), the earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb (nature is laid in earth like it is a big tomb), powerful grace in plants, herbs and stones (plants and herbs and stones can heal people and treat people), in the infant rind of this weak flower (infant for very small or young rind and weak is for a young flower that is small), poison has residence and medicine power (poison is found in the flower and can have the same strength as medicine), with that part cheers each part (when you smell a flower it makes you happy), herbs-grace and rude will (herbs can help make you happy but they can also kill you).
Shakespeare probably used this tool for different reasons. He probably used it to fill up line space. He probably used it because it sounded cool and interesting. It’s interesting to read things where non-human things get human qualities. He might have also done it because thye were fun to make up.
a. What imagery is used? What feeling/tone does the imagery create?
Imagery- gallop, whip bring, cloudy night, spread, wink, leap, arms, untalked, unseen, black, stainless, hood, grow, whiter, cut, garish, bought, tedious, impatient, wear. The imagery’s tone is happy. She is waiting for Romeo and news about him. She did just get married.
Juliet’s mood is extremely happy. She just got married and she is excited. This is so touching right now because she si waiting on news of her husband. As it turns out the news is bad and she was so excited and waiting all that time for nothing. She is very thoughtful to think about him all the time.
When Romeo and Juliet first met, Romeo said that Juliet was the sun. He meant she was so stunning that she was really bright and everybody could see her. Juliet said you could make Romeo into stars. She thinks stars are really bright too. It is almost the same thing. The sun is a star too.
I do not think Paris would make a good husband for Juliet at all. Paris just says he loves Juliet and wants to marry her without even knowing how she feels or if she like him. He is probably just in love with her because he saw her somewhere and she looked pretty. That seems how most people felt in this book. He never even spoke to her before the day he asked her father to marry her.
As it turns out Juliet does not wish to get married at this time. When her mother tells her Paris wishes to marry her she does not wish to do it. She doesn’t even seem interested in Paris. Juliet is probably the type of person who does not love just upon looks but needs to see something inside of the other person too. I do not think it was right of her father to accept the marriage proposal without even asking her. These two should definitely not have gotten married and I am glad Juliet did not end up marrying him anytime in this book.
Romeo is talking to the gate on the tomb as if it were a person. He is talking to it like the dead people were its food. The rotten jaws are the steel bars lining the entrance to the Capulet tomb. Romeo has to break through these rusty bars just to get inside. The food he is talking about is himself. He will put himself in there and sacrifice himself to the tomb. He will kill himself and in a way feed himself to this tomb that Juliet is laid in.
At least right now, Romeo’s personality is angry. The people in the tomb including Juliet have died and the tomb is the holder of all of them-some others he even knows. If his wife Juliet had not "died" Romeo would not be in the situation he is in right now. If he was in a better situation, his personality/attitude may be different
