shake spear language

Task 1

Below on this page are seven quotes from the film.
Find the seven modern translations on the second page.
Cut and paste the correct translations so they are just below the original line.

SHAKESPEARE’S WORDS

4 Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2

1 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,
Prologue

6 For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy Palmer’ kiss.
Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5

5 But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2

7 a plague o’ both your houses!
They have made worms’ meat of me.
Mercutio, Act 3, Scene 1

2 For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince, Act 5, Scene 3

3 o Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2





Translations

1Two unlucky children of enemy families become lovers and commit suicide.

2No story has ever been sadder than what happened to Romeo and Juliet.


3Oh, Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be who you are? Forget about your family and change your name. Or just swear you love me, and I’ll stop being a Capulet.

4A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a student leaving homework, but when he leaves her, he feels as miserable as a student does on his way to school.

5Shhh! What’s that light in the window over there? It’s Juliet, and she is as beautiful as the sun rising.

6After all, pilgrims touch the hands of statues of saints. Holding one palm against another is like a kiss.

7May a deadly sickness strike both your families! They’ve turned me into a corpse, food for worms.





Task 2

Rewrite this quote into modern language.

Shakespeare’s version:
“Go counselor; Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
I’ll to the friar, to know his remedy.
If all else fail, myself have power to die.”
Juliet – Act 3 Scene 5

Your version:
Leave nurse I will no longer tell you how I feel. I’m going to ask the friar how to fix this, at least I will always have the power to kill myself holms.

Exit chat thot imma deliberate with da bois then maybe strait jump off a bridge



I’m deleting you cortana I’m going to talk to captain keyes if there is no war to be done i’m going to shoot myself