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=Welcome to Mr. Masson's= =//Romeo and Juliet Wikispace//= = = = = ===This page is designed to help you through our unit on //Romeo and Juliet//, William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era. I have provided you with links to the webquest we will be working on, and some other Shakespeare resources.===

Sonnets
At the begining of each act, the Chorus sets the scene for the following act in the form of a [|Sonnet], one of the most demanding and precise forms of poetry ever written. Shakespeare wrote many of them, click on the link above for acces to all of Shakespeare's Sonnets. See the new discussion post for more on Shakespeare's poetry.

***[|This link will be extremely helpful in gathering your notecards for the Webquest]**
Click here for the [|Life in Elizabethan England Webquest] that we will be working on. Click here for the [|Romeo and Juliet] film site where we learned a bit about Shakespeare's background. Click here for [|Absolute Shakespeare], a comprehensive site that includes the text of all of his great works, quotes, timelines, info. on the Globe Theater, and more. Click here for a cool article on Shakespeare's [|ifluence on modern language]. It is pretty amazing when you think about it. Click here for some pretty intresting facts about Romeo and Juliet http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/randj.htm Click here for some help on Elizabethan language http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-dictionary.htm Click here for some QUESTIONS people (and you) have on Shakespeare http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/essay-questions.html.

Here is a nice photo of Shakespeare's final resting place and the site of his infamous epitaph.s

A cool illustration of Shakespeare's Globe Romeo and Juliet lying together






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Here are some statues of William Shakespeare.

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