Ms. James said that titles catch people's attention, so now that I have yours... Here is my blog!So reading Romeo and Juliet is definitely getting easier for me to understand, how about you all? There is still a lot that I don't fully understand though until Mrs. James explains it or I look at No fear Shakespeare. So my question is how did everyone in the audience back when the play premiered comprehend it? They did not have a script to refer to or someone smart to explain it. How did all of the uneducated groundlings understand for example what the friar was saying about herbs being good and evil, suns that had eyes, ext. when it was all coming at them so fast. I always have to read the poetry at least twice, even though I get the language ( the meaning still most of the time eludes me) Anyway, I was just kind of wondering. Happy reading!
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thanks! The weird thing is was that's the answer I thought she was looking for, but when I asked her about it after class, she said she hadn't thought about it like that before. I guess I just have an abnormal thinking process. :]
Ahh very clever with the pigs brains thing. I like your post and i too wonder the same thing but i think that they really did speak like that back then. So they would have gotten it alot faster than we do. Great post!
Im pretty sure that we now a days are smarter than some people last year so i agree, how did they understand something we can not even understand with people explaining it to us
I like your tongue twister title! It's truly catchy! Good question about the audience. Those groundlings would have certainly been illiterate. The language in the play was actually common and simple enough for them to understand...It was just that long ago!.....By the way, Cavalierschick is very smart. Her Mockingbird reference (Jem's thoughts about who people are) was an interesting connection!
haha.Thats a good way of getting peoples attention.
Good title! that really did catch my attention :) good alliteration.
Pig brains? lol interesting title. I also like how it's sorta like a tongue twister. I don't know how people back then understood the scripting but they grew up in a different generation than ours. I'm sure that they could understand their script.
Back then, while they were illiterate, that was also a very normal way of talking. Although, you know what's interesting? If someone back then were to time travel to today, they'd probably be as lost in the language as we are about theirs. Isn't that ironic that we talk about not understanding their language, but they wouldn't understand ours?
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