Wider Reading Booklet for Romeo and Juliet

Click on the link abovet o access a booklet of extracts to help students explore the context of Romeo and Juliet. Most of the articles are taken from the excellent British Library website. The booklet includes the following:

• An introduction to Shakespearean Tragedy
• Daughters in Shakespeare: dreams, duty and defiance
• Character analysis: Romeo and Juliet in Act 2, Scene 2 – Part 1
• Character analysis: Romeo and Juliet in Act 2, Scene 2 – Part 2
• The violence of Romeo and Juliet
• Juliet's eloquence
• Romeo + Juliet at 20: Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age
• Key moments from Romeo and Juliet

All extracts have been taken from the British Library, Guardian and RSC websites.

Similar booklets can be accessed below:

• Macbeth
• Jekyll and Hyde
• An Inspector Calls
• AQA Power and Conflict poems

You can find all my Romeo and Juliet teaching resources here.

Hope the stuff’s useful –

Doug