rologue. I suggest using the book vocabulary sheets to help you. Then answer the questions. Be your answers in bold highlight.



Chorus:

Two households both alike and Diggity and vert, where we lay our scene from incident grudge break a new maternity, where civil blood makes civil hands on clean from for the fatal lions of these two foes a pair of cross lovers take their life who missed, ventured, overthrow, do well, their death by their parents strife, the fearful passage of the death of marked in the continuance of their parents rage but their children in not could remove, is not the two hours traffic of our stage, the witch if you with patient years attendant, what here shall miss out to show strive to mend



Questions

1. What is the setting of the play?

2. What is the relationship between the two households?

3. What is meant by “star-crossed” lovers?

4. What happens to the lovers?

5. What is the subject matter for this play?

6. What does the course ask of the audience? In the last two lines, why?

7. What is the name of the poem that Shakespeare uses for the prologue?

8. What poetic devices does Shakespeare use in the prologue? Mark them in the poem.

9. Mark the rhyme scheme for the prologue.

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