Day Twenty / 3.26.10

Today we finished Act 5, and then we brainstormed the themes of the play, evaluated how a few poems could enlighten us about these themes, and then we did a Quickwrite on how we thought one song/poem related Romeo & Juliet's themes. We also made a quick diagram, brainstorming for essays #2 and #3.

Here are the poems that we evaluated in class.

And here is a quick gallery walk, of famous artwork related to Romeo & Juliet. Quiz yourself to see if you can recognize the different parts of the play the paintings reference (the titles help). And, if you're feeling really adventurous, explore how the artist interprets these scenes, and whether or not they reveal something new or interesting about the scene through the painting.

Ford Madox Brown. Romeo and Juliet, 1867.
Frank Dicksee. Romeo and Juliet, 1884.
Richard Dadd. Sketch for the Passions. Love, 1853.
Henry William Bunbury. Romeo and Juliet with Friar Laurence, 1792-96.
John R. S. Stanhope. Juliet and Her Nurse, 1863.
Philip H. Calderon. Juliet, exhibited in 1888.
William Hatherell. "Where's Romeo?", c. 1912.
Frederic Lord Leighton. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, 1853-55.
Frederic Lord Leighton. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets, 1854.