Homework-July 7, 2016

VISUAL ARTS HOMEWORK

MS. STILLWAGON 

JULY 7,2016

Reflect on the first scenes of “Romeo and Juliet” that we read in class today. Look at the original text and then the modern translation of Shakespeare’s writing. Use both to create a text message conversation that would happen today from what is written in “Romeo and Juliet”.
Level 1: Two text messages.
Level 2: Four text messages.  
Level 3: Six text messages.

ORIGINAL TEXT:

Enter CAPULET with CAPULET'S COUSIN, TYBALT, LADY CAPULET, JULIET, and others of the house, meeting ROMEO, BENVOLIO, MERCUTIO, and other GUESTS and MASKERS

CAPULET

Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes

Ah, my mistresses! Which of you all

Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you.—

Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,

She, I’ll swear, hath corns. Am I come near ye now?—

Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day

That I have worn a visor and could tell

A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear

Such as would please. 'Tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone.—

You are welcome, gentlemen.—Come, musicians, play.

(music plays and they dance)

A hall, a hall, give room!—And foot it, girls.—

More light, you knaves! And turn the tables up,

And quench the fire. The room is grown too hot.—

Ah, sirrah, this unlooked-for sport comes well.—

Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet,

For you and I are past our dancing days.

How long is ’t now since last yourself and I

Were in a mask?

ROMEO

(to a SERVINGMAN) What lady is that which doth enrich the hand

Of yonder knight?

SERVINGMAN

   I know not, sir.

ROMEO

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night

Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows

As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,

And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!

For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

MODERN TEXT

CAPULET enters with his COUSIN, TYBALT, LADY CAPULET, JULIET, and other members of the house. They meet ROMEO, BENVOLIO, MERCUTIO, and other guests and MASKERS

CAPULET

Welcome, gentlemen. The ladies who don’t have corns on their toes will dance with you. Ha, my ladies, which of you will refuse to dance now? Whichever of you acts shy, I’ll swear she has corns.

ROMEO

(to a SERVINGMAN) Who is the girl on the arm of that lucky knight over there?

SERVINGMAN

I don’t know, sir.

ROMEO

She stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring. Her beauty is too good for this world; she’s too beautiful to die and be buried. She outshines the other women like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows. When this dance is over, I’ll see where she stands, and then I’ll touch her hand with my rough and ugly one. Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment? My eyes were liars, then, because I never saw true beauty before tonight.

                              

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