Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a town in central England, on or near 23 April (we are not sure of the date, but we celebrate his birthday on the 23rd). His father, John Shakespeare, made and sold gloves1 and was an important person in Stratford. His mother, Mary Arden, came from quite a rich family. [...]

In the beautiful city of Verona, there were two families – the Montagues and the Capulets. They hated each other. They had hated each other for hundreds of years. One day two servants of the house of Capulet were walking in the streets. ‘If I meet any man or woman from the house of Montague, I’ll push them out of the way,’ said Sampson. ‘No, you’ll run away,’ laughed his friend, Gregory. ‘Don’t worry about that,’ said Sampson. [...]

The Garden of the Capulets

In 2000, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) made Verona a World Heritage Site. This means that UNESCO chose this city of about 270,000 people in the north east of Italy as one of the world’s most historically interesting places. Verona was important during the Roman Empire and you can still visit buildings from this time. [...]

Connect to the Internet and go to www.blackcat.vicensvives.net . Insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine. Open the page for Romeo and Juliet. Click on the Internet project link. Go down the page until you find the title of this book and click on the relevant link for this project.

The Prince of Cats

Fortune’s Fool

Look at the list of all of Shakespeare’s plays on the next page. They are in the order that we think he wrote them. There are 36 of them (number 1 on the list includes 3 plays and number 13 includes 2 plays). Don’t worry if you don’t understand all the names of his plays in the left-hand column. Read the settings1 in the right-hand column. [...]

My Lady’s Dead!

With a Kiss, I Die

Connect to the Internet and go to www.blackcat.vicensvives.net. Insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine. Open the page for Romeo and Juliet. Click on the Internet project link. Go down the page until you find the title of this book and click on the relevant link for this project.

There had been some silent films of Shakespeare’s play, but the 1936 film of Romeo and Juliet was a Hollywood blockbuster.1 Many people thought the actors playing the lovers were too old: Leslie Howard as Romeo was forty-three and Norma Shearer as Juliet was thirty-four. But a lot of people who never went to the theatre saw Romeo and Juliet for the first time at the cinema. [...]

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