8NE Lesson 10

PPT

1. Act One, Scene Four - Romeo & Juliet LO: To understand Romeo’s lovesickness and Queen Mab’s speech by Mercutio 01/03/2016

2. Recap What scene did we just look at? What happened during that scene? What did Lord Capulet invite Paris to?

3. Reading strategies In pairs, you will read from lines 1 – 32. Using reading strategies, you will write a summary (around 8 lines) about what you think is most important in this passage. Why do you think we are doing this?

4. Questions to help What are Mercutio, Benvolio and Romeo planning on going? Why is Romeo downbeat? What is Mercutio trying to do? What do you think is Romeo’s version of love compared to Mercutio? Think about the character profiles that we completed – what sort of character is Mercutio?

5. Mercutio – Queen Mab’s Speech What are the connotations of ‘Queen Mab ’?

6. When listening to the Queen Mab speech, underline … The description of Queen Mab What sort of dreams does Queen Mab fill their dreams with? What sort of character is she?

7. O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.  She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes  In shape no bigger than an agate-stone  On the fore-finger of an alderman,  Drawn with a team of little atomies  Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;  Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs,  The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,  The traces of the smallest spider's web,  The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,  Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,  Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,  Not so big as a round little worm 

8. Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:  Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,  And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;  And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail  Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,  Then dreams, he of another benefice:  Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,  Of breaches, ambuscadoes , Spanish blades,  Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon  Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two  And sleeps again.

9. This is that very Mab   That plats the manes of horses in the night,  And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:  This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,  That presses them and learns them first to bear,  Making them women of good carriage.

10. Homework Draw your depiction of what you think Queen Mab looks like using the description that Mercutio gives. Label the drawing with annotations around it showing why you have included it. There is a question at the end – Why do you think Shakespeare has included Queen Mab in the play ? DUE – Thursday 10 th March

11. Plenary Why do you think Queen Mab has been included in Romeo and Juliet?