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Romeo and Juliet in Context
Romeo and Juliet in Context
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How did David Garrick change the play to suit his sensibilities?
He downplayed the raw sexuality of the society
He focused more on the lovers than the feud
He gave himself more dying lines as Romeo
2
Romeo and Juliet has also been famously staged as ...
An Opera
A Hip-hop musical
A ballet
3
What social tensions are staged in the recent Broadway version with Orlando Bloom?
religious
Racial
economic
4
Which musical is inspired by Romeo and Juliet?
Les Miserables
West Side Story
Grease
Something's Rotten
5
How is Shakespeare's play different from Brooke's poem?
The lovers are younger
It is more didactic
It more ambiguous
It does not judge the lovers
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Franciscans were known for ...
Being richer than other orders
Being less liberal than other orders
Being more liberal than other orders
Being stricter in their diet and exercise
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In contemporary theatre Romeo has often been played by...
Pre-pubescent boys
Older male actors
female actors
The same actor who plays Paris
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Who was noted for their mastery of poisons?
The Medicis
The Stewarts
The Popes of Rome
The Tudors
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When was Romeo and Juliet first performed?
Before King James' ascension to the throne
Before 1564
After Queen Elizabeth's death
After 1616
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Describe Romeo's friends in R & J
violent
promiscuous
diplomatic
Sexually repressed
11
To what order did Friar Laurence belong?
Dominicans
Jesuits
Franciscans
Augustinians
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How were friars different from monks?
LIved a life of celebacy
Did not help the poor
Not cloistered
Socially more conservative
13
What kind of society is the Verona of the play
Patriarchal
Puritan
Sexually epressed
Catholic
14
Which WS play other than R&J is most staged?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
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In Renaissance Italy poisons were a branch of..
political science
Alchemy
chemistry
the king's power
16
Whose 18th Century version of R&J became the standard for almost a century?
Kenneth Branagh
David Garrick
Laurence Olivier
John Gielguld
17
Who was probably the first actor to play Romeo?
Richard Burbage
William Shakespeare
Derek Jacobi
Thomas Keene
18
How was suicide viewed by the Catholic church
A mortal sin
a social endemic
A mental problem
a menial sin
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How is love viewed in the society of the play?
cynically
More important than anything else
as a sin
less important than marriage
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Who survived a poison plot?
Queen Elizabeth I
King James I
Queen Elizabeth II
King Charles I
